Vitalik published a detailed post ahead of the invasion's fourth anniversary, originally in Russian, calling the war "criminal aggression" and outlining what decentralized governance could look like in a post-Putin Russia.

He's not being vague—he mentioned quadratic voting, ZK systems, and platforms like pol.is that enable mass consensus-building without hierarchical gatekeepers. What's interesting is the framing: he's arguing that Europe's long-term security depends less on diplomacy alone and more on Russia becoming structurally incapable of coordinated aggression.

A state built to maximize welfare but minimize authoritarian coherence. He used the crypto mantra: not "don't be evil" but "can't be evil"—even achieving 25% of that in human systems would be transformative. It's rare to see blockchain governance theory applied this concretely to geopolitics.

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