Last autumn, friends from the front turned to us with a request to formulate clearly what we are fighting for - conditions that can be considered a victory for Ukraine. The answer was the "Manifesto of Sustainable Peace: The World After Our Victory" - a document prepared by about twenty Ukrainian experts from various fields of law, politics, and economics.
The "Manifesto" was presented at the Munich Security Conference. The reactions to it varied from very positive to rather critical. The latter mostly come from the West. To reduce the criticism to a few words: the document is unrealistic. One commentator even advised stopping talking about the Manifesto, saying that it compromises Ukraine and proves that Ukrainians cannot be dealt with because they live in the clouds.
We need to consider the realities - who would argue about that? But the old realities ceased to exist on February 24, and there are no new ones yet - they change daily. So how do we deal with what is not there?
We must be realists and demand the impossible.