We only ever got three per cent of our gas from Russia, and we now get none, so the war in Ukraine is not the cause of a Cost of Living Crisis that is not happening to anything like the same extent in any country other than Britain.
People who are winning a war do not go in for suicide bombing, but that is what happens if, via NATO Turkey, you have brought in IS from Syria to join your Army. In any case, the bridge to Crimea seems to have been reopened quickly enough. The rest of us need not care whether that Peninsula was controlled by the Wagner Group or by the Azov Battalion. But the Azov Battalion really should care.
Although you would be unwise to bet on it, the war in Ukraine may soon go into a lull for years. But while any part of Crimea, Luhansk, Donestsk, Zaporizhzhia or Kherson remained under Ukrainian control, or while Ukraine was not constitutionally neutral, and therefore necessarily also denazified, then a lull would be all that that was. Until then, it would always start again, and usually or always very soon.
Thankfully, like most of the world's numerous wars at any given time, it is not our problem. Did the Cuban Missile Crisis feel like this? I very much doubt it. Insofar as there is anything to this hype, then it is the lesson that this is where the Russiagate hoax has led. Normal American relations with Russia, such as were routine with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, were screamed down as treasonable when the Trump Administration conducted them. And here we are.
“Normal American relations with Russia”
ReplyDeleteThey’ve aggressively invaded and occupied another country in an entirely unprovoked attack, committing major atrocities in the process in case you hadn’t noticed.
Thankfully, with our military support that country is now humiliating them and retaking city after city across the East (having previously defeated and driven them out of the West).
By the way, there are no Nazi politicians or parties in the Ukranian Government.
I laughed out loud at that last line. But it is really not funny.
DeleteThankfully, like most of the world's numerous wars at any given time, it is not our problem
ReplyDeleteYou sound almost like a rightwing isolationist. Funny though, that I don’t see the Left saying the same about, say, the war in Yemen (which is similarly “not our problem”).
The war in Yemen very much is our problem, since we are a belligerent in it. We should not be. That is the problem. Or, at least, that is our problem.
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