And so Kherson goes back again, as each of them will do on numerous occasions during the course of the rest of our lives, and on numerous more occasions long after that. This war will lull, at least from the point of view of the wider world, but none of us will live to see it end.
Remember that whatever happened in the coming months, then it will only ever be a lull. We have no reason to prefer either side, and every reason to scorn each of them as far as practicable. They are both thoroughly unpleasant, and often in very similar ways.
But they need concern us only insofar as they threatened us. And they need threaten us only if we were stupid enough to back the other lot. Who would eventually turn against us anyway, because that it is what happens. We ourselves do the same thing. Everyone does.
"It's done," Liz Truss texted Antony Blinken immediately after the Nord Stream attack. The Russians were hacking her phone, because of course they were, so they knew from the start about our act of war, not only against them, but also against the NATO member states of Germany, Denmark, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, as well as against Sweden and Finland.
We have not heard the last of that. From any of them. We need to learn the lesson, and henceforth guarantee our food and fuel supplies from whoever happened to be in control of those, while taking every step to develop our own instead. And while otherwise staying the hell out.
It simply does not make sense to actively piss an entity which common sense should tell you that you may need to trade or coopeate with in the not too distant futuure.
ReplyDeleteThe UK has absolutely nothing to gain by actions against Russia save to achieve the transient and vague appreciation from the USA.
Truss is gone, so we may now hope for better, even if past experience does lead us to prepare for disappointment. Starmer must be kept out by any means necessary.
DeleteThe UK has absolutely nothing to gain by actions against Russia save to achieve the transient and vague appreciation from the USA
ReplyDeleteHow does the internet dig these people up? Does it occur to the embarrassing poster above, or to you, that Russia has just violently invaded a neighbour committing massive atrocities unheard of on the European continent in decades in the process? Or that there’s absolutely no moral equivalence between an oppressive invader and those heroically resisting invasion and occupation, still less between Zelensky (by all accounts a good man, democratically elected on a peace platform) and the brutal tyrant Putin.
Yet you propose nothing but amoral neutrality.
Goodness me, no wonder Labour MPs (who wish their party to be electable again) are breathing a sigh of relief that you lot have been banished.
By whose accounts is Zelensky a good man? He is a tyrant and a crook. Opposition parties, all trade unions and all independent media have been banned, and he has amassed a billion dollar fortune in the three years since he was a stand-up comedian.
DeleteUkraine is far and away the most corrupt country in Europe, and Zelensky is President because overtly Nazi militias want him to be, a situation that he gladly accepts. Who cares which of him and Putin wins? Which of the Azov Battalion and the Wagner Group? Which of the Ukrainian and the Russian kleptomaniac dictators in 100 years' time, when this will still be going on?
"Massive atrocities unheard of on the European continent in decades"? You are not even ignorant. There needs to be another word altogether for you, so as not to insult an ignoramus by comparison with that.
We need to guarantee our food and fuel supplies from whoever happened to be in control of those, while taking every step to develop our own instead. And while otherwise staying the hell out.