Four or five days ago Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine without provocation. He is running into more resistance than he expected and the financial and military worlds are in turmoil.
Even I am looking at more news and have suggested some solutions. (see below) But I’m stopping to remind myself of the fuss about Quemoy and Matsu in the late 1960’s. (look it up) This doesn’t appear to me to be the rise of a new Nazi threat. It appears a bit more like Putin attempting to build nationalism and deflect anger about corruption at home and to keep NATO from being too close to Moscow.
Right now on Monday it appears that the Ukrainian’s are putting up a better than expected fight and that the serious sanctions, just joined by Switzerland, are having an effect on the oligarchs.
We shall see.
Why is this happening now? The USA and its Allies have shown weakness in their response to Putin taking Crimea in 2014, in President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in March 2021 and in the tepid response when Putin started saber rattling last fall. Many lives have been lost but maybe it is not too late back down the Russian army.
We shall see.