The West Failed in Ukraine
It has been a while, but I have been as many know gripped by the spectacle in the Ukraine. And on my first post back I do have to point out the quite obvious fact that I was mistaken in my previous prediction on what would happen in the month leading up to the conflict. I had foolishly thought that the Western powers knew better than to keep escalating the situation, in this case, cooler heads did not prevail in the West and the coup by the idealists over the realists in the halls of power in America and Europe has been complete, and any attempt at actual peaceful prevention of this conflict was sabotaged from the start. So what did happen and how did it lead to this war? The catalyst for this conflict I would argue was not in Ukraine itself, for what had changed in the 7 years since the Russians had bloodlessly taken Crimea and propped up their puppets in Luhansk and Donetsk? The answer is not in Ukraine but to its north to the happily forg...