written/spoken by Andrij W. Chornodolsky

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From my perspective 06.14.2025 (Radio Program Commentary)

Andrij W, Chornodolsky

Ukraine’s Trojan Horse and Steel Will prevail Again

One hundred years from now and even a thousand years, historians will be analyzing and parsing the events that built independent and sovereign Ukraine and will marvel at the significance of the audacious and masterful execution of the Spiderweb drone assault on Ruzzia. An assault that changed warfare method and military strategy forever.  The power of an operator one thousand and more miles from a target of a relatively cheap drone to destroy billions of dollars of Ruzzian strategic bombers is not only humiliating to Putin but is a lesson for the entire world. Swarms of drones are here to stay. In the Pantheon of glorious achievements, Ukraine’s military will be recognized in high regard. Spiderweb -2 has begun and in addition Ukraine has developed superior underwater drones with kill power four times greater than ever before.

The temptation to make analogy with the Trojan Horse of the penetration of Troy is hard to resist. The term “Trojan horse” now metaphorically signifies a deceptive strategy to infiltrate and undermine a secure position. A replica of the Trojan Horse stands today in Turkey, the modern-day location of the city of Troy.

• Homer’s Odyssey: Mentions the horse briefly, emphasizing Odysseus’s role in its creation.

• Virgil’s Aeneid (Book II): Provides the most detailed account of the Trojan Horse, highlighting Sinon’s deception and the Trojans’ tragic folly.

• Euripides’ Trojan Women: References the horse, with Poseidon recounting its construction.

While the Trojan Horse is best known through Homer’s “Odyssey” and Virgil’s “Aeneid,” archaeological evidence supports the idea that a historical Troy (likely located at Hissarlik in Turkey) was indeed destroyed around 1180 BCE, a date that aligns with traditional accounts of the ten-year Trojan War triggered by the abduction of Helen, popularized as Helen of Troy.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Today a new version of this wisdom is -Ruzzia beware of Ukrainians bringing prefab sheds as gifts.

The parallel of a large wooden gift horse to the prefab sheds carrying the drones into Ruzzia with retractable roofs is more suitable as a fantasy sci-fi movie than reality. Yes, Putin it was real-Ukraine’s gift to you for the death and misery that you rain down on Ukrainian innocents daily now for three years since the invasion and 11 years since the assault on Crimea and Donetsk and Luhansk. Putin watch out-there is more to come from these ingenious Ukrainians that you have no respect for. In Turkey where the City of Troy was a monument stands of a majestic Trojan Horse. In the future, though out Ruzzia monuments to Ukrainian drones will stand as gratitude for freeing the Russian and subjugated nations from Putin’s totalitarianism. Glory to Ukraine’s military.

The second galvanizing event that placed Ukraine on an irreversible course to modern statehood and a will to give all for its freedom and sovereignty was the sacrifice of the heavenly hundred eleven years ago in Kyiv. On orders of President Yanukovych, a Putin puppet, after consultation with Putin and documented advice of American political strategist Paul Manafort, Yanukovych’s political consultant, snipers from Ukraine’s secret service beefed up by military sharpshooters from Ruzzia attacked peaceful demonstrators that were protesting Yanukovych’s shift away from Europe to Muscovy.

The ‘Heavenly Hundred’ refers to the 107 individuals who died during the Revolution of Dignity, as well as the Maidan activists who gave their lives in the spring of 2014 with the beginning of Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine. The term itself originated by analogy with the ‘hundreds’ - a structural unit of the Maidan Self-Defense - and was first used during the funeral service for the victims on Kyiv's Independence Square in February 2014.

Among the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred are people of different ages, nationalities and religions. The youngest was 17-year-old Nazariy Vojtovych, and the oldest was 82-year-old Ivan Nakonechnyi. Three of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes are women: Antonina Dvoryanets, Olga Bura and Lyudmyla Sheremet. Ukraine is committed to remembering their sacrifice and ensuring that it was not in vain. Ukraine must stand strong and survive.

Yanukovych was ultimately driven out of office and fled to Ruzzia with millions of dollars in containers that nearly caused the aircraft not to be able to take-off. Hopefully a day of reckoning will come and he and his buddy Putin will be sitting in the court of special war tribunal accused and convicted of their crimes against humanity.

From those events in Ukraine, leaders of countries around the world should take note. The will of the people will ultimately prevail. Use of police power and military force is not the solution. In fact, blowback changes the course of history. Remember the events of the anti- Vietnam war protest that culminated with the Kent State, Ohio massacre 55 years ago. That event shifted the national dialogue, resulted in a President in essence being driven out of the presidency running for reelection that seemed all but a foregone conclusion and resulted in Americas decision to end the war in which 55,000 American lives were lost. Force does not assure victory.

Might does not make right and size does not always matter. Miniscule Latvia, a country of less than 1.8 million people will be chairing the United Nations Security Council next year.  Latvia received support from 178 of the 188 voting countries. The Latvians and all the Baltic states are Ukraine’s greatest supporters and allies.  Hopefully the role of the United Nations in fulfilling its mission on preventing war and rejecting force as a means of resolving disputes will start playing a role.

Slava Ukraini

Heroyam Slava