In a nutshell, Russian troops have got no legal right at all to be storming across Ukraine. This could finish off Putin and his party, United Russia. I phoned a pal of mine in Moscow and he said the Muscovites he knew were appalled by what he was doing, and that Putin had ‘lost it.’
Initially on 22.2.22 we were told that ‘peacekeeper’ forces were being invited in by the newly-ratified People’s Republics, to try and stop eight years of bombardment, genocide and ethnic cleansing. If Putin had just stopped with that as his war aim I reckon he could have succeeded. It is simply explicable, papers would understand it. Russian troops would only go say 20-30 km from the borders of the two mini-states, because that would be far enough to stop the shelling. Anyhow, that ‘peacekeeper’ war-aim definitely cannot involve encircling and attacking the capital city, Kiev, can it? continue reading…