Rocket attacks on Kyiv: Putin's target named/Collage of Channel 24 website
Russian shelling of Kyiv is an act not military, but terrorist. It makes no sense from a war point of view. There is no logic. But there is the logic of a terrorist. And it doesn't matter what excites this terrorist.
Either this is the G7 summit, where he is no longer invited, or is it the status of a candidate for Ukraine to join the EU (final goodbye to the Russian world) then whether just a reaction of sick pride to the appearance at the front of Himars. It doesn't matter. It is important that this is a terrorist attack.
What is the point of a terrorist attack?
Sow fear. A terrorist cannot achieve anything on his own. He is weak, he has few resources. He wants to provoke a society that is too tough for him to react. And uses fear. He cannot win by force. And he wants to get into your brain.
That's what all terrorists do. Let's take recent years and recent terrorist attacks in Europe. Few casualties, but a lot of noise. And as a result, conversations begin everywhere that poor Europeans live in a world where danger is around. Is it true? No.
Current Europeans are living in the best era ever. They live longer. They live richer. They live more comfortably. And the probability of dying a violent death for an ordinary European is an order of magnitude less than that of his great-grandfather. To put it bluntly, EU residents need to work very hard for this.
But these are numbers. And they talk about probabilities. Probabilities that say you're more likely to drown in a bathtub than suffer at the hands of a terrorist. A terrorist works with emotions. Not with numbers, but with irrationality. And wants to make you believe that the world is dangerous. He provokes you to react. He wants her. Because he needs to destroy your life. Sow uncertainty and fear. Question everything you believe in.
What is the public response to the terrorist attack?
The best answer is no answer. Because the terrorist wants to change society. And to change means to play along with him. Europe understood this. And therefore, after terrorist attacks, which are rare, they simply make marches of hundreds of thousands, uniting and sympathizing. And that's it. And it is right. This disarms the terrorist. Although it may look like a sign of weakness from the outside.
Putin is a terrorist. He wants to spread fear. He wants to take away your faith. He wants the Ukrainians to leave. After all, Kyiv is dangerous. After all, it's scary in Lviv. After all, he can fly to Vinnitsa. He wants Ukrainians to stay in Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain.
Moreover, the media devotes disproportionately more time to such events compared to the casualties on the battlefield. And if you watch TV, scroll through Instagram, then it may seem that it is as dangerous in Kyiv as it is on the front line. Terrible illusion. Very similar to what Europeans might experience, that their lives are as dangerous as the existence of people somewhere in Syria or Sudan, after the Europeans watch TV with a shifted focus on terrorist attacks.
The probability of dying from Putin's rocket in Kyiv now is an order of magnitude less than the probability of dying in a car accident on the roads of Kyiv before the war. But you left the house a year ago, didn't you? Just like the Europeans took baths…
The terrorist wants our reaction. He wants to scare us and force us to be guided by emotions. He wants as many Ukrainians as possible to lose faith in Ukraine. They left and did not return. Indeed, in Kyiv (Lviv, Zhytomyr, Lutsk) it is dangerous. And those who remained asked to “save face”, if only he would stop.
This is Putin's goal. Our fear. Our apathy. Our despair. Our depression. Do we want to give the terrorist what he wants. Do we want to help Putin…
