Russia must not trust imperialism – not even a little bit – as Che Guevara already knew, Eduardo Vasco writes.

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Well, Ukraine launched one of the most powerful attacks against Russia since 2022. On the first day of the month, five Russian military bases were hit by drones infiltrated into Russian territory and remotely operated. They allegedly disabled 40 fighter jets.

Simultaneously, explosions occurred on roads and bridges in Kursk and Bryansk, killing over 100 civilians. Russian authorities considered these terrorist actions and claim to have evidence that they were carried out under orders from Kyiv.

All of this happened on the eve of the second round of negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian diplomatic and military officials in Istanbul. It was not exactly a signal from Zelensky that he is willing to move toward a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

It’s clear that the Ukrainians didn’t carry out these attacks without NATO’s complicity. As always, the Western warlords encouraged Kyiv, pushing it toward the abyss. Then their propagandists take advantage of the obvious Russian retaliation to demand that NATO’s imperialist forces plunge headfirst into a full-scale war against Moscow.

Such is the stance of a certain Brett Erickson, who congratulates the Ukrainians for the attacks on Russia but warns: “Russia will respond” – according to him, with cruel and disproportionate attacks against civilians, just like the evil Russians always do. Therefore, in his view, NATO countries should not act cowardly but rather more aggressively.

This Erickson calls for the theft of the $300 billion in Russian assets frozen in the West, but rants: the United States knows it can’t do that, because no one else would deposit their resources in the West, afraid that the imperialist pirates simply won’t give them back. He also calls for sanctions against countries that buy Russian gas and oil but is aware of the West’s impotence to confront China and India on that level.

Indeed, this impotence is expressed in Erickson’s own whining. The impotence extends even to the propagandists: symbolic words and actions are having no significant effect on Russia.

A clear hypocrisy is also evident in Erickson’s text. He writes about the Ukrainian attacks, but given his whining, it seems as if Russia carried them out, not Ukraine. NATO’s propagandists reveal themselves as childishly desperate, soiling themselves in fear of the Russian response, labeling it as “cruel” and cursing the West’s inaction. Calm down, poor Erickson.

At least this whining is genuine. It contradicts the initial (and probably forced) euphoria of Ukraine’s sponsors after the attacks and their propaganda that Kyiv was finally turning the tide.

Thus, right after Operation “Spider Web,” the BBC’s correspondent in Kyiv, Paul Adams, wrote: “the message Ukrainian delegates bring to Istanbul for another round of ceasefire talks with Kremlin representatives is: Ukraine is still in the fight.”

When Moscow retaliated later that same week, Adams was appalled by “Russia’s brutal response” – which left an insignificant number of civilian casualties compared to Ukraine’s terrorist attacks but, according to the Russians, hit several military targets.

Then came Zelensky’s whining: “Russia must be held accountable for this!”, taking the opportunity to beg NATO for help.

That Erickson, as impotent as all NATO propagandists, complains that the West won’t do anything to stop Russia’s retaliation. After all, nothing done so far has achieved anything.

“The West’s response to Russian atrocities is no longer constrained by morality or capability. It’s constrained by realism. The tools that remain are the ones we’re not actually prepared to use. The West can talk about resolve, but they govern by threshold. And Russia knows exactly where the threshold is,” laments poor Erickson.

Yes, reality is harsh, dear Erickson. The imperialist West is losing. Those few nations that got used to treating most of the world like garbage, to looting its wealth, to invading, to imposing or toppling dictators, to profiting from the hunger of millions, no longer hold the power they once did.

This was clearly demonstrated by the expulsion of American troops from Afghanistan by the bearded, ragged Taliban. It’s being demonstrated for over a year and a half in Gaza, where a starving people resists a genocide promoted by the United States and its military base called “Israel.” And it is proven, of course, by Russia’s reaction to NATO’s attempted encirclement and subsequent invasion via Ukraine.

However, anyone who thinks this decadent and decrepit Western empire is defeated is mistaken. Those who hold power don’t give it up unless forced. And to protect it, the most immoral and harmful means to humanity are used. That’s exactly what Erickson wants to be used: in this case, nuclear weapons. Luckily, imperialism is facing a nuclear power, which rightly developed this deterrent capability — otherwise, it would have been dominated long ago, and today the state of humanity would be very different.

The lesson from the whining of unqualified people like Erickson is that there must be no mercy when your enemy is this cowardly, immoral, and aggressive. Russia must not trust imperialism – not even a little bit – as Che Guevara already knew. Nor should Iran, nor any country in the world that seeks true independence from the dictatorial dominance of the old imperialist powers. It must be fought without mercy, without trust, and without concession. It’s a fight to the death — and only one side will survive.