My interest and concern regarding the war in Ukraine come naturally. My mother was born in Ukraine, and her story of harrowing flight from her village with her mother and brother in the middle of a snowstorm in the dead of night, pursued by a squad of White Russians and Ukrainian irregulars, remains fresh in my mind.
My father was born in the Russian oblast (administrative division) of Georgia near the border of South Ossetia, Stalin’s home region, and was the spitting image of the Russian tyrant — short, muscular, with a heavy mustache, a tendency to violence, and, like Stalin, played the piano. A racketeer who had the mayor of Montreal in his pay, he kept an enemies list and occasionally acted on it. In some sense, a domestic version of the Russia-Ukraine conflict occurred in my own home.
Of course, the political story of the last decade or so is far weightier and more complex. Authentic scholars and political researchers can introduce us to historical realities and intricacies going back centuries, helping us to arrive at partially informed conclusions. As the Cato Institute explains with respect to the modern era, “Washington has meddled in the political affairs of dozens of countries—including many democracies. An egregious example occurred in Ukraine during the Euromaidan Revolution of 2014 [which began on Nov. 21, 2013, involving the subversion of the elected government of the country]. As Ukraine’s political crisis deepened, the extent of the Obama administration’s meddling in Ukraine’s politics was breathtaking.”
Secretary of State for Political Affairs at the time Victoria Nuland, who pronounces “the Ukrainians” as “the Ukrainions,” as if she were observing an episode of Star Trek, engaged in an infamous telephone call with U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt in which they discussed their preferences for specific personnel changes in the post-Yanukovych government.
“It is no wonder that Russia reacted badly to the unconstitutional ouster of an elected, pro-Russian government—an ouster that occurred not only with Washington’s blessing but apparently with its assistance. One can legitimately condemn some aspects of Moscow’s behavior,” concludes the Institute’s analysis, “but the force of America’s moral outrage is vitiated by the stench of U.S. hypocrisy.” […]
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