# The Ukraine War as a World War: Russia's Conflict with the West

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2106131475699491224
- Source account: [@Svitlana_UA22](https://x.com/Svitlana_UA22)
- Source language: Russian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:18
- Published: 2026-10-02
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west) The SMO is the beginning of World War III between the unipolar and multipolar worlds.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=3) That is what the SMO is. And it no longer matters on which front it began.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=6) It could theoretically have begun somewhere else in another area.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=8) It has nothing whatsoever to do with Ukraine.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=10) Ukraine is simply territory controlled by hegemony, nothing more.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=14) And if we are in World War III, let's—World War II, let's place the SMO precisely in this context, the victory, the dynamics. We thought it was moss, but it was a rock in Ukraine.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=24) We poked it with a stick here, but something was wrong there.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=26) And when we began scraping off that moss, a granite cliff of the Western world emerged there. We ran into hegemony that had absolutely no intention of meeting us halfway, despite the fact that we really had grown stronger,

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=36) consolidated ourselves, and so on. It was a test, a reality check, and it turned out that everything is much worse than we, uh, thought. We thought we would reach an agreement with the West, after all, we are also a strong, in fact, Western country, as we believed.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=46) It turns out that a different fate is in store for us.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=49) We are destined for a strategic defeat. Inflicting a strategic defeat— that is what is at stake for us.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=54) What is at stake in this war, of which the Ukrainian front is a part.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=58) The other side, the hegemony, openly intends to inflict a strategic defeat on our country.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=64) So, we are in this war, and they have proposed inflicting a strategic defeat on us, yet we are thinking about how to take, uh, Novolkhivka or Sloviansk.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AgU8PEhfaP7V/en/the-ukraine-war-as-a-world-war-russia-s-conflict-with-the-west?t=71) That is our problem. Sloviansk does not exist, even Kyiv is of little importance in this Third World War, where we face strategic defe-- defeat.