The History Behind Putin’s War in Ukraine AN INTERVIEW WITH ANATOL LIEVEN by Doug Henwood. From the interview:
“But I think it’s worth remembering that in the 1980s, as the children of the Soviet elites became aware of how much better they could live in a Westernized Russia than a Soviet Russia, that played a huge part in the fall of Communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. If you are plugged into the wider Russian elites and listening to what they’re saying in private, and what some of them have even started to say in public, you see that they are becoming really anxious. And they understand better than the rest of the population, even the educated population, just how badly this is going to affect them. If the Ukrainian quagmire goes on for a long period, then I think discontent against Putin will mount very, very high.” This is also the case with many other countries like India. But the differences have decreased with a lot of propaganda and harassing people who did not condemn Russia. But with the economic sanctions, the differences may increase again and in the long run, it will play a role.
Samo Burma makes three prediction: one of them is that China will be main beneficiary.
John Helmer on the possibilities of fake news; it seems that we cannot really believe any thing in the main stream newspapers. http://johnhelmer.net/the-zelensky-summit-meeting-in-kiev-on-march-15-with-polish-czech-and-slovenian-prime-ministers-was-a-fake-devised-in-warsaw-the-meeting-was-at-przemysl-poland-zelensky-also/?fbclid=IwAR2AVzZ2hWwQkdJajAJAOlWCmdmkQscln1cOEtcW8lbjeZHvxk0XQgEWcPY
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