On Thursday February 24, 2022, Russia launched a ‘special military operation’ /or/ ‘invasion’ in Ukraine. Now, it is not my intention to flutter the dovecotes by any means [emphasis added]; but, monitoring the unfolding of the crisis through multiple news media (both Western and Russian), one can’t help but wonder:
- For a country that spent few weeks bracing itself for an anticipated invasion and had called reservists to arms, how come no display of heroic on-the-ground resistance (i.e. live combats) to the aggressor is caught on record—much less made available for the world to bear witness; meanwhile, the only few recorded direct clashes (between Ukrainian and separatists forces, ONE MAY NOTE) took place in the Donbas region?
- Why would President Putin undertake a counterintuitive démarche (invasion) that could—and, already has—cost him economic ties (especially the Nord Stream 2 project) and political rapprochement with Europe; those he’s been investing in and working towards for years?
- Last but not least, what made the UK’s Prime Minister promptly (while the first 24 hours have not yet passed on the Russian ‘special military operation/invasion’) [emphasis added] suggest a ‘governing from exile’ (eo ipso, practically surrendering the country) option to the Ukrainian President, “Boris Johnson has said the UK would offer support for a Ukrainian government in exile after warning the president he may need a “safe place” to flee from Russian troops” (Forrest)?
Food for thought…
Related Publications: “It Is Now Bound to a Single Act of Faith: Overcoming the 1999 Kosovo and the 2014 Ukraine Syndromes;” “Nord Stream 2: More Than a Pipeline;” “Nord Stream 2: More Than a Pipeline [Part II: Migrants Border Crisis and Russian Military Build-up on Ukraine’s Border];” “Nord Stream 2: More than a Pipeline [Part III: Not an Imperial Russian Enterprise];” “Sleepwalking back to 1914: A State of Imminent Danger of War?”
Reference
Forrest, Adam. “Boris Johnson Says UK Will Support Ukrainian Government ‘in Exile’.” The Independent, 24 Feb. 2022, www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukraine-government-exile-boris-johnson-b2022696.html. Accessed 24 Feb. 2022.
