We are not the first to set an example for the whole world. Ukraine is treading a path similar to that of the United States!
The United States of America was formed by declaring independence from Britain as a result of the War of 1775.

This is mentioned in the article“US Independence Day: History, Traditions and Modernity” on the Army Inform website.

“The situation escalated so much that in 1775, the War of Independence, or the American Revolution, began. And the first document that clearly stated the creation of a new state was the Declaration of Independence, approved on 4 July 1776 at the Second Continental Congress.

The Declaration was signed by 56 “founding fathers” who were representatives of the Congress (the supreme legislative body) of 13 colonies that had already become states of the new country. It was in this document that it was stated that “all men are created equal” and that British despotism came to an end.

A new type of state emerged before the eyes of the world – a federal republic with three branches of government, freedom of speech, rights and obligations of citizens as the basis of the social order.

The Declaration was first signed by the President of the Continental Congress, John Hancock, followed by future presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. The youngest signatory was 26-year-old South Carolina lawyer Edward Rutledge, and the oldest was 70-year-old inventor Benjamin Franklin.

246 years ago, American patriots did not see any originality in the Declaration. Rather, it was an expression of ideas that were declared to create a new state. It was a manifesto with signs of messianism – look, we want to set an example for the rest of the world.“

Currently, Ukraine is also at war[1] not for its proclaimed, but for its actual independence from the Russian Empire, a force that embodies an archaic, violent social order. And this independence is already relevant for the whole of Europe, and even the continent.

Although the contexts of Ukraine and the United States are different, the parallels are obvious!

  1. I wish this phrase would become obsolete. ↑