Do We Have a Future?
... choice but to protect the quarter of Ukrainians of Russian stock. Military action was inevitable, as the Anglo-Saxons well knew, having been arming and financially supporting, since 1992, one of the world’s most corrupt states. Had Russia not reacted, NATO would have continued to encroach on Russia, in particular in the Caucasus, and Moscow knew this, especially after the failure of the Minsk Accords, which turned out to be western window-dressing. The past is as the future. The same human characteristics are always there, acting in the same way, but in new guises. Leopards do not change their spots: just as Poland brought in Britain and France to prepare for war against Germany, by being stubborn on the Danzig question ...