Russia-Ukraine war = more lessons to be learnt

 

What happens when a big, strong man is found beating up a weak man? Normally. passers-by or the friends of the weak man will push the big man away from hitting the poor small man, further. Looks like that’s the same case as with the Russian-Ukraine war going on now. The big man is Russia, the weak, small man, Ukraine, the passers-by and the friends are USA and the other NATO countries.

In the gone old days, USA was known to have its famous cowboy character and trigger-happy notions. Anyone, or any nations going out of line and causing the displeasure of the Americans would have to answer to strong arm manoeuvres and decisiveness of the Americans. The tragic outcomes of Egypt’s Saddam Hussein, Libya’s Gaddafi and Afghanistan’s Osama Bin Ladin are some examples, Perhaps, you can also add the bombings of Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki to those illustrations. It was the real policeman of the world, then. National leaders would run to America to report to the American leaders of any excessive martial or military problems that they cannot solve in their own lands. And the Americans would jump in straight away. 

Not anymore. They have got their fingers burnt in Vietnam, Afghanistan and other middle eastern countries. Thousands of their military men had died. They are now trying to be more patient, civilized, if you may, and unwilling to sacrifice their soldiers. That is why the hesitation in the Russian Ukraine war. Not only are they worried over their troops but also the citizens of Ukraine and Russia. So, they are going about using sanctions against Russia as the main weapon. Even an emergency meeting of NATO and other friendly countries just resulted in just a statement by American President Joe Biden that ‘NATO countries have never been more united’! He tried to make that statement look big! 

Anyway, it almost looks like an agreed-upon progression of psychological war by the Ukraine friendly countries is in headway, like, with threats of complete sanctions, trying to feed the Russian people what is ‘actually’ happening, through whatever means, and statements like ‘Ukraine is winning the war’. Maybe, ‘winning the war’ is true to a certain extent for now, as the Ukrainian fighters were able to prevent Russian soldiers for advancing further in certain areas, with the help of NATO armaments. USA’s President Joe Biden had also said, recently, that President Vladimir Putin is a ‘war criminal’ for the death of so many civilians. Suspected or expectant usage of chemical weaponry by the Russians  had also been mentioned. Surely, it is done to sway the opinion of the people of the world at large. 

Russia, on its part, is trying to portray to the people of its own nation and its friendly countries, that everything is normal within its homeland and just doing what it ought do in Ukraine after having been very patient for several years. Russia is afraid that, Ukraine, once part of the Russian Empire, is slowly moving its alliance to the NATO countries and will be untouchable once it becomes one of the members of NATO.

Physiological warfare or not, both by the Russians and the Ukrainians with their NATO friends, we only hope everything ends here without more bloodshed and tragic displacements and sufferings of human beings.