Samson Option for Ukraine

A world without Ukraine does not deserve to exist. A world with Russia is not worth living.

In the spring of 2023 Ukraine received angry calls from American and German leadership. They scolded Ukraine for having downed Russian fighter jets over Russian territory, before they reached Ukrainian airspace. That was Ukraine’s sole “transgression” that prompted the warnings from Western leaders, which also included threats of suspending military help. 

Imagine your country being bombed daily, your women and children raped in the most barbaric fashion, your men being tortured, beheaded, castrated and otherwise mutilated in the cruelest ways, and then those whom you consider your allies threaten you, and not your abuser. It’s you who is being heckled by your perceived friends, it’s you who is asked to show restraint and not to escalate. Not your abuser, but you. This is the psychological ordeal that Ukrainians have to go through every day. Seeing their people killed, raped and mutilated by Russians on one hand, and having to endure their “allies” tying their hands. 

Then, earlier this year Russian minister of Defence Belousov calls the American leadership and asks them to foil a secret Ukrainian plan. Rumours have it that Ukraine was planning the targeted assasination of Putin during the Navy Day. And US promptly stifles Ukraine from carrying out this plan, whatever it was. It’s not really about the plan itself but the fact that the abuser can casually call the perceived defender of the victim and ask him to restrain the victim from hurting the abuser! I don’t know about you, but to me this is despicable and evil, and really makes me question whether the perceived defender is really the defender or whether he is in cahoots with the abuser. 

And now we have the latest piece of news that Ukraine had a wonderful opportunity to destroy Russian warplanes that had been raining down KAB glided missiles on Ukrainian cities and at the time had been situated out in the open in an airfiled inside Russia, but US rejected Ukrainian pleas to strike it with American-provided ATACMS.

So, we have the following situation. Russia’s allies - the rogue states like Iran and North Korea, have no scruples about their weapons being used to kill Ukrainians or to hit Ukrainian cities located far away from the frontline. They do not impose any restrictions on how Russia uses their weapons. For some reason the Evil is not afraid of "escalation". But the perceived "Good" demands from the victim that it fights with one hand tied behind its back. The “Good” even foils the victims actions after complaints made by the Evil, as recent revelations demonstrate. Furthermore, even now, with Ukraine’s recent incursion into Russian territory, the diplomatic discourse shockingly revolves around whether such incursion is justified or not!

In its military doctrine Israel contains a strategy called Samson Option. It is named after the biblical figure Samson, who destroyed himself along with his enemies. In the context of Israeli defense policy, the Samson Option suggests that Israel might use nuclear weapons as a last resort if the nation faces an existential threat, ensuring mutual destruction or severe retaliation against its adversaries.

As the last 2.5 years have shown, Ukraine needs to have its own Samson Option with the nuclear deterrence it entails. As the Western allies have proved to be too neurotic and unreliable, this is its only long-term security guarantee. And Ukraine has the full moral right to reclaim its nuclear weapons, because it was forced to renounce them by the US under false promises of the infamous Budapest Memorandum. Needless, to say all those agreements that were entailed in it are moot.

Moreover, although technically Russia hasn’t used nuclear weapons in this war, from the start it has effectively been taking advantage of its nuclear weapons to get an upper hand on the battlefield against Ukraine - a non-nuclear country that was forced to renounce its nuclear status and, to add insult to injury, to transfer its nuclear and nuclear-capable conventional weapons to Russia. By its constant nuclear blackmail, Russia has been scaring away Western nations from full-fledged military support of Ukraine. Moreover, it has been using its nuclear status to sow fear and discord into Western societies through its 5th Column, who, among other things, have been assidiously trumping up the trope of a "nuclear apocalypse" to discourage Western governments from supporting Ukraine more determinedly.

The most unnerving result of such neurotic attitude was felt at the end of 2022. After its two successful counter-offensives in late summer and autumn, having liberated Kharkiv and Kherson regions, Ukraine had the momentum and was poised for more territorial gains. But the US effectively thwarted Ukraine’s further attempts by delaying the necessary arms deliveries. Ukraine’s dazzling success revived in the sick imagination of the White House policymakers the fears of a “nuclear apocalypse”, because Russia, yet again, had threatened to use nuclear weapons. Basically, one can say that at the end of 2022, Russia in essense did make use of its nuclear weapons to gain advantage at the battlefield when it was on the cusp of total defeat. Its nuclear blackmail in a war it unleashed against a non-nuclear country effectively foiled Ukraine’s further advances, due to the latter not getting the necessary weapons on time from its “allies”. Therefore, also now with Ukraine’s successful incursion into Russian territory I remain only cautiously optimistic, fearing that Biden Administration will again pressure Ukraine and hinder its war efforts to save Russia from total defeat.

In fact, this neurotic and pathetic fear of confronting Russia, based solely on the latter’s (alleged¹) possession of nuclear weapons, even deters Western countries from protecting Ukrainian skies from Russian missiles, even after Russia deliberately bombs a children’s hospital and fertility clinics. Speaking of which, it always baffled me as to why intercepting inanimate objects launched from Russian territory by other inanimate objects launched from NATO territory, without ever having to confront actual Russian soldiers, would be considered an escalation. But apparently the Western policymakers are so pathetic that they are even afraid to confront Russian inanimate objects, not to speak of Russian soldiers.

In view of all this, Ukraine must create its own nuclear weapons and use them if its existence is threatened, even if it means bringing the world to flames. I sincerely hope Ukrainian nuclear physicists are currently in some bunker, tirelessly developing nuclear bombs. Even a dirty bomb would be morally acceptable at this stage. If we allow the murder of Ukrainian children undergoing cancer treatment, then we too deserve to suffer the same fate from radiation.

Ukraine has in fact been fighting on two fronts all this time - crushing Russia on the battlefield and countering Western timidity and reluctance to help. Withstanding the assaults of barbarian Russian hordes, and at the same time withstanding the pleas from the Western “allies” to surrender, negotiate and cease territory. Constantly being lectured by its “allies” about the dangers of “escalation”, about the inadmissibility of full-scale war with Russia and so on. But Ukrainians have been achieving Herculean feats during these last 2.5 years, which are in fact unique in modern history. On one hand, taking on Russia heroically and mastefully - liberating some of the lost territory in the process and now even managing to invade Russian territory in the Kursk region. And on the other, gradually bending the decadent, pathetic and effeminate Western leadership to its will, who are being forced, albeit slowly, to strike off one “red line” after another.

Moreover, Ukraine has been withstanding not only against Russia, but all of the combined Evil in this world. Russia has been receiving suicide drones from Iran, artillery shells and missiles from North Korea, and as recent reports suggest will also receive ballistic missiles from Iran. At the same time, Russia has successfully been scouring the whole Global South for more cannon fodder to throw against Ukraine. Having run out of their own Buryats, Yakuts, Kalmyks etc., they are now throwing Nepalis, Indians, Africans and Central-Asian immigrants against Ukraine. All the Evil in this world, all the anti-western elements have united in their assault against Ukrainians, and Ukraine has been taking it alone for the whole West, while the latter shivers in its little corner afraid of “escalation”, afraid that its decandent pathetic lifestyle that it loves so much might be endangered.

If anything, escalation is what we need to get us out of this predicament. Escalation is what we need to get us out of this rot we have been in the last many decades. Instead of keeping ourselves eternally paralyzed, we need a catharsis - a one time event that will resolve our stupefaction. Life lived in such eternal paralysis amounts to damnation. Because what is the alternative? Shall we then stand idly by as the evil criminal uses its (still) vast resources and then after depleting them scours for more all over the world and throws them against Ukraine, bombards Ukrainian cities till the end of time with its own, Iranian, North Korean², maybe later Chinese and who knows what other missiles? And we won’t be able to do anything about it just because, you see, that criminal may start a nuclear war?! Shall we then allow Ukraine to be devoured by all the scum of the world joined together in its hatred against everything beautiful, in its hatred against Western Civilization and directing all that hatred against Ukrainian nation who continues to take it alone for the (Western) team? Such a stance, is not only neurotic, but morally despicable and evil. We are even afraid to allow for Russia’s disintegration, let alone expedite it, with the fear that its different remnants might start nuking each other or whatever. From the start of the war, it seems there was more concern in the world about the well-being of the abuser than of that of its victim.

Ensuring Ukraine crushes Russia, in fact destroying Russia altogether, should not be contingent on any cost-benefit analysis. It should not be contingent on what may follow afterwards. We are obliged to do it because it is the morally right thing to do. Pure and simple. Even if it means the commencement of nuclear war. The right way forward, the only morally acceptable way forward is not to avoid confrontation with Russia because of fears of nuclear war, but to embrace that eventuality, prepare for it and design solutions which will enable us to prevail without being completely destroyed. Destruction of Russia should be the ultimate aim that trumps all considerations about its perceived “side effects”.

We should start building more bunkers. We should start throwing all available resources, all the great scientists & engineers into building more destructive nuclear weapons and anti-missile systems capable of intercepting nuclear warheads, so that in case of a nuclear war we avoid being destroyed ourselves but ensure Russia’s complete destruction. This is all doable, and the West has all the resources and all necessary talent to achieve this if it sets its priorities right. Instead of pouring inordinate amounts of money on social benefits for invaders from the Third World, who hate us with every fiber of their being, instead of wasting huge amounts of resources on foreign aid to the Global South, instead of diverting our precious attention to the perceived “social injustice” and the woke agenda, we would better be utilizing all our talent and resources on increasing our military might to prevail in a nuclear conflict.

And we should accept the possibility that some big Western cities might be hit and turn into ashes. However, if we can concomitantly ensure Russia’s complete destruction, then it’s a great deal to take. What is destroyed can be rebuilt - Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now prosperous cities. And whatever rises afterwards will surely be a better world without Russia in it. Because the world in which Russia exists is not worth living anyway.

In our modern era, Ukrainians represent the best of humanity. In fact, in the Kali Yuga that we currently live, in this age of darkness, banality, degeneracy, and decadence, they are the only reason I would still give humanity another chance. Yet humanity is failing Ukrainians. And if it continues watching idly by, if it allows the destruction of the Ukrainian nation - currently the jewel of humankind, then the world does not deserve to exist. For me, Ukrainians have been the primary catalysts of my political and personal awakening over the past decade. The fateful events in modern Ukrainian history - the Maidan Revolution of 2014 and the heroic Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion in 2022 - were also important milestones in my personal growth, my political awakening and development.

What is the worth of curing cancer or Alzheimer's, what is the worth of combating aging and increasing human lifespan, what is the value of making great leaps in AI technology when we allow people like us, who could have participated in these accomplishments, to be devoured by savage barbarians? We do not deserve our comfortable and happy lives while a civilized European people are made to suffer. Ukrainians are a highly talented and civilized European nation, yet they suffer not because of their own shortcomings or ineptitudes, but because they were simply unlucky to be neighbors of savage barbarians.

A world without Ukraine, a world without the Ukrainian nation - the only bright spot in this Age of Darkness, is not worth living. A world that had failed Ukraine does not deserve to exist. After all it had witnessed and had to endure in the last 2.5 years, Ukraine needs its own Samson Option and has every moral right to it.

1. Storage life of nuclear weapons is around 25 years. Russia has never tested its nuclear weapons since the fall of Soviet Union. Therefore, also in view of widespread corruption in Russian military, Russia’s actual nuclear status is questionable.

2. At the time of this writing a North Korean missile has hit a residential building in Brovary District of Kyiv killing at least one family.