https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/06/21/merkels-lack-of-regrets-illustrates-the-fallacies-of-germanys-russia-policy/

Merkel left office of her own will, the only postwar chancellor to do so. She was popular at home and she was admired worldwide as one of Germany’s greatest postwar leaders. Now, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 has cast a dark backwards shadow over her tenure.

From these two linked stories above,

on the international political scene, nobody is honest and morally correct.

Everyone is for their own home countries and their own personal pockets.

The U.S. is the same as well.

The same goes on in eastern Asia as well.

We shall not trust anyone.

그러도 보면, 김일성의 "주체" 사상 may be the route we should take.

Putin might have been smart at one time,

however, his smartness has run out, and is being punished now.

All those powerful countries underestimated the power of Ukraine.

It seems to be a miracle that Ukraine has survived so far.