Emperor Putin's War

The matter was settled, and the war of the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke out, from all directions in one breath, and with air, missile and “cyber” focused bombing, which destroyed the Ukrainian military infrastructure in minutes, and turned thousands of tons of American weapons that were supplied to “Kyiv” to rubble. Russian President Vladimir Putin, that no one can cross Russia's red lines.

Putin did not stop at the limits of his recognition of the independence of the republics of Lugansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, and decided to engage in a war of attrition and destruction of Ukraine, and completely disarm it, and not only prevent Kyiv from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

In a previous approach to what happened and is happening in Ukraine, I referred to Lugansk and Donetsk as the “Achilles heel,” and the term dates back to the ancient Greek myths, about the tale of the child “Achilles”, whose mother was horrified by a priest’s prediction of his death in the Trojan Wars, and the solution was according to the car customs at the time. To baptize him with the water of a magical river, and the mother did, but she was holding him by the heel or heel of one of his feet at the time of bathing, so the “Achilles heel” became the weak point of the promised, who grew up and became a guerrilla warrior, who decided many battles for the benefit of his people, but a poisoned arrow hit him in His heel, which was not baptized with protective water, was his fatal death, and in my article about the Chinese gain from the Ukraine conflict, which was published here on February 12, I said in the text, after referring to the separatist situation of Lugansk and Donetsk, in the Ukrainian region of Donbass, that they are the “Achilles heel” within Ukraine, "in which Putin will not abandon his investment in the short and medium term," which is what Putin did, with the arrows of recognizing the independence of the two separate republics beforeEight years, in the midst of the stormy incidents of 2014, which began with the overthrow of the elected president of Ukraine at the time, Viktor Yanukovych, who is from the Donetsk region and loyal to Russia, after which the sudden Russian attack took place, and Moscow annexed the “Crimea” peninsula and the port of Sevastopol on the Black Sea, and intensified the rebellion against” Kyiv" in eastern Ukraine, and fierce battles, in which 14,000 people were killed, did not stop temporarily until February of the following year 2015, when the "Minsk Agreement" was concluded, in which Russia participated with France and Germany, in addition to the government of Ukraine and separatist leaders. On the ceasefire, and until mutual accusations of violating the agreement increased in recent weeks, and until Putin decided to turn his page, and announced his sudden decision to recognize the independence of the Donbas Republics, and to conclude treaties of friendship, cooperation and military support, followed by official Russian intervention, perhaps with the aim of annexing the region to Russia later And the Russian separatist forces retook it in about an hour, and Putin did not stop there, the tone of his lengthy speechThe pavement for the recognition of the two Russian separatist republics, was categorical, violent and frank, almost describing Ukraine as a fabricated state, fabricated by the leaders of the Russian Bolsheviks, from Lenin to Stalin to Khrushchev, by carving out areas of Russia mainly, and from Poland and Romania in the battles of World War II, and although Putin He has not yet withdrawn his official recognition of the state of Ukraine, which was recognized by Moscow in the “Budapest Memorandum” during the nineties of the last century, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, of which Ukraine was one of its republics, and it became independent like other republics, but Putin practically retracted the recognition, and sought To restore all Russian regions and cities inside Ukraine, up to Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev itself, he accuses the corrupt Ukrainian ruling elite of stealing $150 billion from Russia, of wasting the rights of Russian speakers inside Ukraine, of turning the country into a base of American aggression and spying on Moscow, of possessing nuclear technologies inherited from the Covenant Soviet Union, could enable it to manufactureTactical nuclear weapons, which may reach Moscow with hypersonic missiles within only four minutes, are all reasons why destroying Ukraine’s hostility to Russia is an urgent task with the conviction of Putin, who continues to act coldly as a professional “chess” player, and hits him at a time when no one expects.

Although Putin’s historical statements do not seem completely accurate, there were precedents for the emergence of Ukrainian nationalism before the rule of the Bolsheviks, and before the establishment of the Soviet Union, images of “Ukrainian” rebellion followed in successive eras, starting with the era of the Kievan Rus empire in the ninth century AD, Ukrainians gained some temporary independence in the gifts of rebellion, even against the Russian Empire, to which most of the territory of present-day Ukraine fell in the nineteenth century, and that was the reason for the Bolsheviks granting nominal independence to Ukraine in 1922. “Donbass,” as Putin mentioned, whom the West accuses of wanting to rebuild the Russian Empire, which Moscow denies today, although the accusations and denials may not help much in understanding Putin’s mentality, which is led by Russian nationalism in the Slavic and Orthodox Christian sense both, no It is devoid of apparent nostalgia for the glory days of the Soviet Union, under whose shadow he worked as an officer in the famous and terrible KGB secret service.J.B”, which is Putin, mourns the Bolsheviks’ mistakes, and their neglect of Russia’s rights and its lands on ideological grounds, but he appreciates the weight of the Soviet era from a Russian nationalist perspective. He dreams of restoring the Soviet Union as it was. He is a person without a mind. Between considerations of the heart and mind, Putin is planning his way. He does not want to restore the Soviet Union as a unified political entity, as much as he wants to restore the security meaning of the Soviet Union, and the pivotal role of Russia in the heart of the “Soviet” border security system. Russia alone extends over an area of ​​17 million square kilometers, and most of the independent Central Asian republics after the collapse of the Soviet Union became a partner with “Putin’s Russia” in the “Collective Security Organization,” which includes Armenia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, next to Russia and Belarus to the west, while Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan Azerbaijan, close to the Russian security alliance, while Georgia and Ukraine stubbornly resisted.Since 2008, they have wanted to respond to the American temptation to join NATO, and Putin's response was violent, and he intervened by force to separate the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia in late 2008, then his subsequent leap was to annex Crimea in 2014, which he completes today with the actual annexation of the rich Russian eastern Ukraine. With coal, factories, and agricultural wealth, even if the three small Baltic republics, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, which officially joined NATO and were one of the republics of the Soviet Union, got out of his grip, Putin still maintains a Russian military and ethnic presence in Moldova, and may increase Putin’s temptation. By realizing his security dream, Russia, during his extended reign, reconstructed and developed a mighty military, nuclear and missile force, which made it enter an influential party in reshaping the world, with the help of a “borderless” relationship with the neighboring Chinese dragon, which is crawling at a lightning speed to the top of the world, in terms of economy, technology and weapons. Russia may compensate for its relative economic weakness, in exchange for benefiting fromRussian weapons and space technology, and the relationship with China would relieve Russia of some of the effects of the economic sanctions imposed by Washington with the European Union. It allowed the revitalization of the Russian economy, which suffers and is still over-reliant on rentier resources and on the export of oil and natural gas, which China seems ready to absorb a lot of. The Chinese may protect it a lot from the losses caused by the new Western sanctions, such as Germany’s “suspension” of the “Nord Stream-2” pipeline to transport Russian gas, America and Europe reducing trade exchange with Moscow, stopping the supply of electronic technologies, leading to the blocking of Russian banks from Swift's financial system, all of which are undoubtedly harsh blows, that Putin must have taken into account before takingHis recent Ukrainian decisions, and perhaps he estimated that Western sanctions will not last for a long time, and that he has to absorb the blows and close losses, and until others realize the impossibility of bringing Russia to its knees, especially since America is not ready to engage in a direct military clash, deterring the risk of Emperor Putin.