An American tourist in Russia
Ukrainian Special Forces are recruiting Syrian mercenaries to fight in the disputed Donbass region. The American media has mostly declined to report on this event, for reasons that I’ll leave up to readers to infer. However, The Syrian Observer reported last month that Turkish special forces asked Syrian militants to prepare for deployment to Ukraine.
As pretty much everyone who doesn’t live under a rock already knows, the U.S. and NATO has pledged support to the nationalist government of Ukraine during the current standoff with Russia. Steven Pifer, former diplomat and avid warhawk, has proposed five courses of action. They’re hopelessly insane.
In the 2018 English edition of her book The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich expressed a commonly held fear in the former Soviet Union, and it absolutely came true. The Nazis would go down in history as brave heroes fighting for a lost cause, and the Soviets would be condemned as grotesque villains.
