.GlenPearson: The Long War | National Newswatch
We’ve become so used to a relatively secure Europe, full of trade treaties, human rights, military alliances, and even conventions on genocide, that we are running the danger of believing it will always be this way. We are likely wrong.
That remarkable period is ending, not because of the Ukrainian conflict but through the diabolic ambitions of some of Russia’s leadership. Like the Cold War from the recent past, European citizens are talking about borders changing, an expanding NATO to meet an insidious threat, the calling up of new military personnel, lucrative military equipment contracts, and, God forbid, a tactical nuclear threat. Russia is aggressive again, and the European family is restive.
Since invading Ukraine a year ago, Putin might have obtained a bloody nose, but his ambitions reach for the new Russian Empire he hopes to establish. To oppose the threat, NATO is now expanding, sanctions are being levied, Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are perishing, massive amounts of weaponry are entering the region, millions are refugees, and memories of the Cold War are returning.
Putin has to look to expansion since to permit Russians to look inward is to invite a world of hurt, perhaps even revolt. As other commentators have noted, Russia is a young country, and the young generation is endlessly restless. Only 1 in 10 Russians are over 65, yet life expectancies are severely declining. Diseases run rampant, and birth rates are declining. Workers are deeply discouraged, leading to rising rates of alcohol and substance abuse.
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