Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Siege

 From Libération:

The siege of Kiev is about to begin.



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Things that annoy me: all these economic sanctions against

Russia. This thing can go on for years. All that the sanctions are

doing is spreading misery to the Russian population, from that

to the Ukranian one. Really?! Ursula von der Leyen is unblocking

EU 500 million for humanitarian aid. Good idea!!


Nato activation. The current Russian constitution is modelled on the

French one. Putin hysteria is stopping us from seeing what may be going on.

And not to be mean,  but the notion of "all for one; one for all" is straight out

of Alexandre Dumas (père) 19th century Musketeer novels. The French

Dickens, if you will. Deterrence through mutual assured destruction seemed

clever enough in the 20th century when no one knew how to extricate us from

this il-logical situation. Needs work for the current world order!!!


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The view from Politico (Fiona Hill):

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340


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The view from YouTube:

https://youtu.be/If61baWF4GE

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