was bound to happen. Vladimir Putin’s war on Chechnya did not serve as a wake-up call for the West in 1999. Neither did the Kremlin’s cyber-assault on Estonia in 2007, its war on Georgia in 2008, the illegal annexation of Crimea, nor the start of its military aggression against Ukraine in 2014—all of which Russia denies. Numerous, blatant assassinations of “inconvenient” witnesses, opponents and journalists rang alarm bells, especially when carried out on European soil.
The West continued to do too little, too late. We blacklisted officials but we kept building pipelines. We introduced sanctions but turned a blind eye to the companies circumventing them. Western politicians danced with Mr Putin and retired to chair the boards of Russian companies. These firms funded the Kremlin’s arms race and diverted billions to Mr Putin’s entourage.
No, the crisis is not in Ukraine—it is in Russia, and it has been deepening for decades. Russia’s aggression began long ago, and not just against Ukraine. The Kremlin used energy as a means of political pressure and employed cyber-attacks, hostile propaganda, proxy wars and, eventually, missiles. What we witness now is not the Ukraine-Russia war but the continuation of Russia’s war against Ukraine that started in 2014.
For a democratic leader, human life is more precious than anything else. For a dictator, no human sacrifice is too great a barrier to ambition. Russia’s neighbours, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland, have been trying to explain this for a long time. At times we have been ridiculed as solely focused on this issue.
IngridaSimonyte It didn’t help that the United States knee-capped its own oil and gas industry, while at the same time green-lighting Nord Stream 2.
IngridaSimonyte Everything should be frozen an allocated to the reconstruction of Ukraine!
IngridaSimonyte not entirely untrue...but it could also be said that a very misunderstood idea about appeasement once again found its way into the WRONG place
IngridaSimonyte Another trans?
IngridaSimonyte Well, Poland and Lithuania are obviously too polite to tell U.K. Tory government and other EU govs … “I F……G TOLD YOU SO!!!” And they really did. The real issue is that those govs down deep really knew it too… And won’t hesitate to repeat the error
IngridaSimonyte In retrospect, it was. Having a hostile neighbouring nation going through a civil war and a systematic extermination of Russian speaking people would cause that...as it has plenty of times in the past.
IngridaSimonyte The history of Nazism in Lithuania and the Jewish Holocaust. Unless Lithuania removes its monuments to Lithuanian Nazis, it cannot be considered a civilised country. It should be kicked out of the EU and NATO.
IngridaSimonyte Also, not trying to be Kanye but why are those running/owning Time, Economist all Jewish.,same religion as Zelensky and SBF..but the tax money being sent to Ukraine is not just Jewish money. So, asking this because there is a coordinated fraud!
IngridaSimonyte Isn’t it a fair question to ask on whether it’s reasonable to send $110b so far for Ukraine’s defense. There will be many such grants and then there will be massive pay for rebuilding..overall, $1T plus price tag for this war led by Pres Biden?
Thanks for your interest, v. flattered, but I'd like to reconcile with someone I've been in talks with for a long time
At least it wasn’t stollen through FTX then funneled to Ukrain .
marynlm
Very correctly analysed and presented… It’s wake up call for Global Democracies to stand up in Support of Ukraine - Both Financially and Militarily …..
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Tijgernest
And now let's think who is to blame for the deaths of civilians? Who fed the fascist monster for years? Should I name those who once did this to Hitler?
IngridaSimonyte Eyewash. Crisis is in who supplies gas to Germany. Now that economist has evolved into a trend setter, it needs to textualize past experiences and bring real issues to surface too.
IngridaSimonyte Amen.
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