Paul
Goble
Staunton, August 28 – The war
Vladimir Putin has launched against Ukraine will not be limited to that
country, a reality that “the banal Chamberlains” of the West today have failed
to recognize and respond to and that the world will suffer from as a result
unless and until a new Churchill emerges, according to a Russian commentator.
Andrey Ivlyev, who writes for the
Noviy Region news agency, says today that Putin’s seizure of Crimea and his
intervention elsewhere in Ukraine has angered Western leaders but not led them
to recognize the true nature of the threat he poses or to take actions to block
it (http://nr2.com.ua/publications/Ekspert-Nachataya-Rossiey-voyna-Krymom-YUgo-Vostokom-Ukrainoy-ne-ogranichitsya-78773.html).
Putin’s actions “have become possible”
in large measure as a result of Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and its “cynical”
willingness to try to engage in peacemaking with someone who has shown himself
to be an aggressor who shamelessly lies and is seldom if ever called for that.
“History is repeating itself,” Ivlyev
says. “Over the course of 70 years of well-being, Western leaders have degenerated
into banal Chamberlains. The world is waiting for the appearance of a new
Churchill.” If that does not happen, “mir” in both its meanings – “the world”
and “peace” – “will come to an end.”
It is “already obvious to everyone that
Russian aggression is the result of the geopolitically pathetic nature of
Western leaders” who view money as more important than “law, conscience and
honor.” What has happened in Ukraine
already is horrific; “but this is only a pittance compared with what awaits the
world tomorrow.”
By its pathetic failure to respond with
anything more than economic sanctions, he continues, “the Western countries are
in fact pushing the Putin criminals to carry out serious military crimes.” And it is now clear that “sanctions are a
fake which are not capable of stopping the fires of the war which has already
begun.”
Everyone is aware that Ukraine by itself
“is not capable of opposing the military might of Russia” and that the West has
condemned it to defeat by its “demonstrative inaction.” This Western “policy”
is “in every respect immoral,” especially given Western expressions of “concern”
about what is going on which in turn are a reflection of “banal hypocrisy and
exceptional cynicism.”
“The blame for the continuation of
Russian aggression in Ukraine lies in full measure on the West” which its “beautiful
and correct words” have done nothing to conceal “the traitorous nature” of its failure
to act against Putin and Russian aggression, Ivlyev says.
“But,” as he points out, “the earth is
round, and a time will come when understanding will come as well. Only the price
of this understanding,” just like 70 years ago, “will be very high,” yet
another confirmation of the truth of the ancient observation that “the most
expensive thing on earth is stupidity because one has to pay for it most of
all.”
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