LESSONS FROM THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE.

 What are the lessons that this war leave us? That is the first question that many people around the world make it. I invite you to discover with me dear readers the answers to this complicated question.

 

Firstable, it would be important to remember the beginning of this terrible war was in 2014. Nonetheless, the ugliest battle started on February 24th, 2022 when Vladimir Putin (Russian’s president) order to his army to invade ukrainian territory. Consequently, Ukraine's President Volodimir Zelenski order to his army to defend ukrainian territory and started demanding harsh sanctions to the United States and the European Union against Russia. The idea was to punish Russia for its invasion, in addition to destroying its economy in order that the invader couldn’t continue financing the cost of the war.    

Since then, the war has lasted almost 7 months in which thousands of civilians have died and of course soldiers from both sides. As a result, it is possible to start mentioning the lessons that this conflict has left. The first lesson that can be mentioned here is that doesn't care how big  can be the different between the power of one army and the other one always is possible to believe in the idea that a small country can beat and defeat a country that is bigger and stronger as Russia is. For example, before the beginning of this war Russian army was considered as the second strongest army in the whole world. On the other hand, ukrainian army was the twenty second army as the site "Global Power Fire" confirms. The difference between one country and another when it comes to military power was there, but you can appreciate right now that Russian army was just "the name" because they were unable to conquer Ukraine possessing an army that easily could have won the war in a few days.

The second lesson that we can learn about this war is the courage that the noble people of Ukraine has since they had the option to surrender; however, they decided to fight against a stronger country in order to preserve their freedom. In addition, we cannot forget that Volodimir Zelenski who is the president of Ukraine had the opportunity to escape so as to save his life because he was the first objective to be killed in this Russian invasion. His decision was to stay leading his government, people and army without thinking that he could lose his life otherwise in protecting his people. And nowadays we can say that his action to remain and not escape as a coward was memorable and is something that probably will never be forgotten.  

The third lesson that can we learn is the importance of having powerful allies in a situation like this because Ukraine has not been alone during the war. Since the very beginning Ukraine has had the support of at least 40 countries around the world, and believes me when I tell you that they are very powerful countries when it comes to economy and powerful military weapons. For instance, the United States has been the country that has helped Ukraine the most sending them more than seven billion dollars in weapons and humanitarian aid in order to give an important help to Ukraine to fight and resist against the Russian troops. Besides, we can't forget the European Union that has imposed many economic sanctions against Russia, has sent many weapons, humanitarian aid, and a shelter to those ukrainians who have fled the war and sought protection in other countries. 

The last lesson that I will mention in this opportunity is that you can't go against the majority of the countries as Russia did invading Ukraine and believe that you will win. Vladimir Putin believed that he and his army had the power to take Ukraine by using the force, and what he forgot was the counterweight that western countries were going to carry out and that in the end ended up preventing Putin's desire to overthrow the ukrainian government and take control of this country.