What Next For Ukraine?
Why, unfortunately, a nice sensationalistic story may not actually matter very much
The so-called “news” media loves sensation. In fact, the news media relies on sensation in order to grab fickle eyeballs for a few monetizable moments and will manufacture sensation if the world hasn’t been obliging enough to provide one ready-made. Fortunately for the global news media, Ukraine has recently been providing something sensational. So, after more than a year in which the Western news programs and newspapers mostly ignored Ukraine because editors knew audiences were bored with what had become for them just another old story, Ukraine is back in the headlines.
Ukraine invades Russia!
Personally, I’d like to see Ukraine exterminate all Russian military capacity and help set up the basis of a real democracy in Russia.
But it’s not going to happen.
So what will likely happen? To arrive at a reasonable answer we need, as always, to ignore the babbling of ignorant sensation-mongering journalists and commentators and consider instead the practical realities of the situation.
First of all, it seems Ukraine launched an opportunistic invasion in order (i) to force Russians to divert forces from its steady advances further south, and (ii)…
