Those in the Middle East know the kind of destruction seen in Ukraine all too well – the West was the perpetrator
By Paul Rogers Published 4-2-2022 by openDemocracy
Photo: U.S. Secretary of Defense/flickr/CC
Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine remains in a violent stalemate. Russian forces are pausing their attempts to occupy Kyiv, having withdrawn some of their forces from around the capital, but a major retreat is highly unlikely given Russia is recruiting several thousand mercenaries from Syria.
The Kremlin’s strategy now is to concentrate on overrunning the southern Ukraine port city of Mariupol, before joining up Russian forces in Crimea with those in Donbas to take control of as much of the region as possible. Continue reading
