A Good War To Lose

“It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blond hair and blue eyes being killed every day with Putin’s missiles and his helicopters and his rockets,” said David Sakvarelidze, who has dark brown hair and whose eyes appear to be green. He said this yesterday, unchallenged, on the BBC. 

Sakvarelidze was Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Georgia from 2008 to 2012, and then an MP there from 2012 to 2015, before following his patron, the former President Mikheil Saakashvili, to Ukraine, of which they are both now citizens. Saakashvili was Governor of Odessa from May 2015 until November 2016, while from February 2015 until March 2016, Sakvarelidze was Deputy General Prosecutor of Ukraine.

Thus, then, speaks the anti-Putin elite across the former Soviet Union, all of which it still seeks to control: “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blond hair and blue eyes being killed every day with Putin’s missiles and his helicopters and his rockets.”

If Russia won, then Vladimir Putin would have won, giving Russia the gift of resistant Ukrainian “insurrection” and “terrorism” forever thereafter. If Ukraine won, then the likes of Sakvarelidze and the Azov Battalion would have won, and they would have no intention of stopping at the borders of the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine. 

Sadly, one of those does have to win, and we are going to have to deal with whichever of them it was. In the meantime, though, we should absolutely not be taking either side.