Having been rebuffed by the Eurovision Song Contest, Volodymyr Zelensky has to make do with the Pope. But having been rebuffed by the Eurovision Song Contest, does the Pope have to make do with Zelensky? Argentina may as well be in it these days, as the Vatican always should have been. And when does Zelensky plan to return to Ukraine? Never, I expect. His destination has always been Hollywood.
The growth of the Wagner Group into a state continues apace. From Ukraine to Sudan, and indeed great tracts of Africa and who knows where else, it no more plans to give up its territorial gains to the Russian Federation or to anyone else than the East India Companies or the Crusader military orders ever did. In the end, those did have to. But that took a long time, and it was hardly without acrimony.
Meanwhile, what of the official Armed Forces of Russia? Or of Sudan, against the Rapid Support Forces? Or of Ukraine, against the Nazi militias? Might those become the self-styled guarantors of this or that, as in Turkey and as in Pakistan? Or as in Britain, as we saw a week ago? There is never anything mere about symbolism.
And note that the ban on Russia for having invaded Ukraine does not extend to Ukraine's drone strike on Russia. Nor to Israel's deployment of the most sophisticated military technology in the world, to kill children during the Eurovision Song Contest.
If the British Forces are there to guarantee anything at home like Turkish secularism, it must be whatever the King stands for and he'd be one of those Tories who now voted Green.
ReplyDeleteYes, the great divide in officially existent opinion is between the people who agree with the King about everything except the monarchy, and the people who agree with the King about the monarchy but nothing else. The latter are indeed always saying that the Forces have "gone woke".
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