In his recent book Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, author Richard Sakwa appears to underscore the above statement, and even more broadly the gravity of the geopolitical situation vis a vis the Ukraine . After noting the 'failure to create a genuinely inclusive and symmetrical post-Communist political and security order' ultimately delivered to all stakeholders what at best he calls a "cold peace", which in turn 'stimulated new resentments and potential for new conflicts', he then added,
'[T]he Ukraine crisis forces us to rethink European international relations....If Europe is not once again to be divided, there need to be new ideas about what an inclusive and equitable political and security order encompassing the whole continent would look like... Unfortunately, it appears the opposite will happen: old ideas will be revived, the practices of the Cold War will, zombie-like, come back to life, and once again there will be a fatal dividing line across Europe that will mar the lives of the generation to come.'
This outcome Sakwa opines somewhat optimistically, is 'far from inevitable', but he does concede that to avoid it 'will require a shift in the mode of political discourse from exprobation to diplomacy, and from denunciation to dialogue.'
At this stage of the game though, to the extent they even gave such rationales serious consideration given the turn of events, one is left wondering if that "shift" Sakwa refers to has not already been declared a non-starter by the putsch pirates. For that matter, given how far they have already come by eschewing such "rationales", we can safely conclude any rapprochement implicit in said "shift" was never in the putschists brochure to begin with.
End Part One.
(To be continued.)
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