The last bloody song of the empire. What are the chances of success in Putin and
Next, we would lose a piece of a piece. The success of the Crimean operation gave rise to the next stage of the invasion - not in the Donbas, but on the whole east of Ukraine, because we have already started to forget about Kharkiv and Dnieper in the spring of 2014. Next was Odesa. But something went wrong - microscopic remains of the Armed Forces and special forces of police and SBU and the first wave of volunteers stopped the "Russian Spring".
The current phase of war is the last bloody song of the empire, which realized that the chances of repetition of Crimea in 2014 were gone, and the chances of the success of the military operation are melting every year. Ukraine gave its statehood gradually. The decline of institutions, corruption, strengthening of the actual power of clans and oligarchs seemed to invite a strong neighbor to take a failed country under the wing. Belarus is not the extreme case, because there is a cunning rat.
Yanukovych would not be able to play so. The Maidan turned away the greatest deadly threat that was hanging over Ukraine. Therefore, the empire resorted to other, more outspoken means. If it were not for the Maidan, now one of us would hopelessly guerrilla in the Carpathians, others would go, others would lie in the graves. And the whole civilized world would welcome Putin, who turned away the humanitarian catastrophe and saved millions of people from Nazism.
Because the story is written by the winners, though it may sound unfair. Therefore, in 2022, Russian tanks would stand in Vilnius, preparing to rush to Warsaw, and German and Polish politicians and generals would bite their elbows because nothing to fight.
And American voters would look on the map of Estonia, convincing each other that the boys from Oklahoma and Ohio do not make sense to die for what is not even visible on the globe, at the other end of the globe, especially since Berlin and Paris only express deep concern, Recalling that in fact Eastern Europe, along with the Baltic, is a traditional Russian sphere of influence, promised in 1943, and we need to hear Russia and give it the opportunity to preserve the zones of interests. 1.
As long as we will be seized by a state with weak institutions, personalist power, restriction of freedom of speech, corruption, clans power and non -free economy - we are at risk. 2. No one will make us a country for us. The story is written by the winners.
Carthage may have been right in the war with Rome, but we will never know it as never would have learned our descendants (those who survived) the truth about the terrible Kiev junt They saved the brotherly people (and in fact one people) from the humanitarian catastrophe. After all, we only learned the truth about the Holodomor through the independence of Ukraine - at least if this memory was cherished in some families, it would not survive for four generations. 3.