There’s one thing that will stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and it gives rise to several questions.
The people of Ukraine have fought more bravely and more fiercely than the world had dared to hope and yet the cruel truth is it will do them no good.
It may be wishful thinking but Russian leaders rarely exit politics peacefully. Putin’s presidency is more likely to end via a coup, an assassin’s bullet or disease — perhaps the same one that is maddening him — than it is via him ceding even a skerrick of power.
If the taking of Ukraine was meant to be a template for the taking of Taiwan it has already been a spectacular failure. The level of local resistance and thus the need for overwhelming military force from the invaders has only concentrated the world’s attention and outrage. Milhaud Lakhnov joins a rally in support of Ukraine during the war against Russia on March 03, 2022 in Hallandale, Florida. Picture: Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP
Likewise communist China has always perpetuated the fiction that Taiwan is not a separate nation but merely a recalcitrant state, a kind of prodigal son with whom there will soon be a “peaceful reunification” — a concept that presumes there are at least some on the other side who want to be unified.
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