It was only a matter of time before the chains of war began to unravel and old mother Russia dared to reprimand Ukraine, her abandoned husband, for failing to return to her open arms as he had previously. For some time now, these two characters had been at each other’s throats. Russia, enabled by their master puppeteer Putin, is enraged; he is enraged at the Ukrainian people, at their elected leader, at Europe for courting Ukraine, and at the West for facilitating Ukraine’s romance with NATO. Ukraine, on the other hand, is unflinching. He wishes to move on, and he has, but Russia, like an obstinate and disgraced lover, has decided to seize Ukraine by the throat, literally seizing him by force. The conflict has begun, and the world has formed alliances.
Tom Freidman, a columnist for the New York Times, expresses one such allegiance. He asserted that while this is a war fought by Putin, it is also a war fought by America and NATO. He stated his reasons and observations and concluded that, while the situation is more complicated than the famous Capulet and Montaque analogy, this quarrel dates all the way back to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the eventual collapse of the hegemony into small Tsarinas, Ukraine being one of them.
When you read Tom Friedman’s piece in the New York Times, you’ll notice that his interpretation is somewhere in the middle, not trying to upset the apple cart. The problem is that the cart has broken and the apples have fallen to the floor. Putin is holding a gun over the apples, daring the onlookers, Europe and the hog USA, to pick them up.
Freidman failed to mention that NATO’s expansion is purely political in nature, as these “new” countries needed some form of security to protect them from Russia, which they know will retaliate against their independence sooner or later. That is why Ukraine wanted to be a part of it. Why? Because they have witnessed and learned from World War II and the likes of Hitler. What is the point of NATO if it begins to pick and choose who can and cannot enter this illustrious club?
Putin, like Hitler, is a man stuck in the 1990s. He’s an anathema, and like Hitler, he wants to rewrite history solely to reclaim the dominance of OLD RUSSIA, the Russia that has long since vanished since Gorbachev abdicated to the winds of change, and I use that word deliberately.
Putin understands, just as he understands he is a failed leader, that NATO is no longer a threat to Ukraine in the same way that Russia is a threat to Ukraine. dreaming of the days when Ukraine was so in bed with Russia that it bore Russia. But, like any good strategist, he needs an EXCUSE to meddle. He’s been working on this excuse for years, and as expected, the US and EU guys, like Chamberlain, ate the bait, with the exception of Orange fellow. He was a Putin supporter with Russian motives, so he was Putin’s agent in the West. In exchange, it appears that Orange Guy would receive economic benefits in Russia, similar to Russian oligarchs who have tentacles all over the world.
The bottom line, as far as I can tell, is that NATO has failed Democracy yet again, playing pussyfoot with people’s lives while despots disguised as leaders decide how people should live and to whom they must answer. Putin is following in the footsteps of old boy Hitler, and China is waiting in the wings to stage Scene 2 of this Nazism. The white boys are back, and this time everyone is armed with a nuclear device in their back pockets and a hard-on for conflict in the front of their pants.
(c) All Rights Reserved. Kwesi. February 2022.
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