I have noted some pathetic attempts in various media to validate Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. This unprovoked war has led to the murders of thousands of civilians in Ukraine including women and children plus serious instability worldwide.
Apart from creeping international inflation caused by the disruption and increases in oil prices, the war has also had serious
repercussions in poor, drought ridden countries, where starvation is now
rampant. They had previously been able to buy basic foods such as wheat and
corn from fertile Ukraine, but the disruptions caused by the war, have
driven up the prices of these products where they are available.
If it wasn’t so serious, it would be
hilarious to see and listen to the excuses by the apologists whose reasoning
seems steeped in nothing but the ‘kick the dog’ philosophy!
For those who are not familiar, the
kick the dog reaction is most often used by cowards. For when one
cannot confront the real source of their displeasure or hurt, they find the
weakest thing to abuse and take out their anger.
Often this is a harmless dog lying around
at home!
This philosophy shines clearly throughout
the writings and reasoning of most who have come out in support of Putin’s invasion
of Ukraine.
The latest attempt at justification
was written by one Maxim Artemyev, a so-called journalist at the
state-run media empire in Russia called RT. His piece published on
9th September, is entitled “The West took advantage of Russian weakness in
the 1990s and is unable to understand the trauma it unleashed.”
It begins “A series of articles
published in the Washington Post in August about the events leading up
to Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, and its first stage of operation,
raise a significant question. “How realistically and objectively do people in
the West perceive the situation?”
In putting forward his justification
for the illegal invasion of Ukraine, Artemyev spouts a series of injuries/indignities
he claims Russia suffered since 1985-1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev pulled the
USSR out of the arms race and ended the Cold War.
In the long diatribe which wreaks
with self-pity (as a Russian), he itemizes the various indignities, financial and reputational
losses Russia has suffered since 1985. While doing so, he pointed an accusing finger at many in the west and NATO but
reading it through carefully, I could find nowhere that the Ukrainians were
the villains.
Clearly by his own admission, Ukraine
is just the dog!
And he knows that too, since he places
the blame squarely where it should fall, writing; “The collapse of
historical Russia was the result of Gorbachev’s remarkably weak leadership and
Yeltsin’s personal ambition, as the latter tried to consolidate power even if
only over a smaller state.”
So, Mr. Artemyev, if the Russian empire
disintegrated as a result of poor leadership in Russia, how does that justify
the murder of thousands next door?
Maybe this article was intended to
be a salve for those Russian readers who wondered why their brothers and
sisters in Ukraine were being murdered by Russian soldiers and not for an
international audience.
What is clear though is that Russia had
expected the dog to run away whimpering, but instead, it is biting back!
So, the carnage and war crimes continue.
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