{"id":27735,"date":"2014-09-09T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27735"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:26:39","slug":"the-russian-ukrainian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/09\/the-russian-ukrainian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian-Ukrainian War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Goble<\/a> summarizes Konstantin Gaaze’s ten questions and answers about the war between Russia and Ukraine:<\/p>\n

Gaaze\u2019s first question is \u201cWhy did we (they) act as we (they) did with them (us)?\u201d His answer: \u201cPresident Putin considers that the Ukrainian state exists only because he agrees to its existence.\u201d Consequently, \u201cMoscow has acted from the false hypothesis that \u2018Ukraine is not a state,\u2019\u201d something for which several thousand people have already paid with their lives.<\/p>\n

But Kiev, the Moscow writer says, has also operated from a false hypothesis.\u201d Ukrainian leaders believed that \u201cRussia will not provide essential assistance to the local uprising in the east of Ukraine because it is intimidated by Western sanctions.\u201d But Moscow isn\u2019t, and it has intervened. Consequently, Ukraine has had to fight, and many have suffered as well.<\/p>\n

His second question is \u201cWhat has been obtained and how did the war end?\u201d In Gaaze\u2019s view, \u201cthe east of Ukraine belongs to people whose names we in fact do not know. Kiev has lost part of its territory but forever have been marginalized the future of the non-existence Novorossiya.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will never become part of Russia,\u201d Gaaze says, but \u201cin the near term, it will not be part of Ukraine either. Millions of people thus are condemned to live in an enormous Transdniestria, to live between two armies, one of which (the Russian) is committed to destroy the other (the Ukrainian).\u201d The first is only waiting for the order to do so.<\/p>\n

Gaaze\u2019s third question is this: \u201cWas Putin fighting with Ukraine or with the West?\u201d the answer is with both, but the results are different. \u201cKiev did not lose the war, but it did not win it either. The West,\u201d in contrast, \u201clost the first round of the new Cold War. Moscow did what it wanted,\u201d while the West did not act decisively because of various fears about the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the first round of the cold war is not the entire war,\u201d Gaaze says. The West can recover. NATO can rearm. \u201cThere will be other rounds,\u201d and Russia \u201cwill not be able to win them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Goble summarizes Konstantin Gaaze’s ten questions and answers about the war between Russia and Ukraine: Gaaze\u2019s first question is \u201cWhy did we (they) act as we (they) did with them (us)?\u201d His answer: \u201cPresident Putin considers that the Ukrainian state exists only because he agrees to its existence.\u201d Consequently, \u201cMoscow has acted from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,5,1119],"tags":[316,114,726,671],"class_list":["post-27735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-military","category-russia","tag-borders","tag-separatism","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimirputin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27736,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735\/revisions\/27736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}