Ukraine is a pretty big country by size, the second largest in Europe after Russia. It has important natural resources and one of the world's top exporters of cereals as well.
But is it about Ukraine anymore?
On the rubble of Ukraine higher stakes seem to be at play now. Like world domination and challenging of the current status quo.
It's hard to tell if we'll actually end up with two antagonistic blocks in the world. There may still be enough nostalgic old people about the "good times" during the Cold War and the greatness of USSR and communism. And still alive.
After all, Putin is 70. I don't even want to think about the age of Biden. If they were alone, they'd be two grandpas toying with the world. But they are not.
Xi Jinping is the youngster among them, at 68. With his eternal smile, he can't decide to tell the world he's with Putin, but doesn't want his sanctions.
After all, who can sustain China's massive economy, based on exports? Russia? :) Russia had a 10 times lower GDP than China before the sanctions. China depends on its exports to the Unites States just like Europe (still) depends on Russian gas.
On the other hand, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran and a few ex-soviet countries have been having their own military and economical alliance called the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation since early 2000s, as a sort of a counter to the NATO and the EU. Strange to see both India and Pakistan in the same military organization, by the way.
Interestingly, I wouldn't have known about this alliance if not with this war.
Have the moves been planned to split the world again, based on ideology and politics and Ukraine was just the pretext found to start the whole thing rolling?
Are we prepared to go back in time 50 years? It's true, there was no internet or crypto back then. Harder to keep people in the dark nowadays. Or maybe it isn't?
I guess everything is speculation until it becomes fact.
That was definitely an easy week-end read. :D
