Never again? The Solution To The European Question
The Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, wrote in The Washington Post of 7 March a compassionate opinion about the West’s reluctance to firmly take steps against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Readers might think the obvious about Dmytro Kuleba, that he and his team, headed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, naturally will defend Ukraine. Except, Mr. Kuleba presents the rare gift in the opinion to reach beyond the pains and misery of Ukraine.
He reminded the World that even if Vladimir Putin might succeed in capturing Ukraine, the Ukrainian people will never submit to any aggressor likewise the spirit of Europeans during Nazi Germany.
Dmytro Kuleba refers to the Russian hastily erased article just a few days after the invasion of Ukraine, where Putin’s “special operation” was compared to the “solution to the Ukrainian question”.
Putin’s plans to remove the Ukrainian roots, its democratically elected Government, and break the free will of the Ukrainian people to establish their future, were clear from the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
At this point, I have to insert the analysis that Putin’s special operation is nevertheless beyond the Ukrainian question. It is, without doubt, Putin’s well-hidden plan about the solution to the European question. Russia’s answer against the extremely well-to-do Europeans with GDP numbers in the trillions, with Putin’s message to the West: without the Russians, there is no stable world economy.
For all Vladimir Putin’s bravoure to hide his elaborate plans with misdirections, such as a bogged down mechanized infantry, incapacity to unleash Cyberwarfare, the hostage-taking of nuclear plants, the clumsy attacks on Ukrainian soil by his top generals Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, Vladimir Putin knows what is at stake.
At stake is a Russia that fell apart in 1991, a Russia already crippled by world sanctions, a Russia dependent on the ever stronger growing China, and a West that is wary of numerous capital incursions from Communists by retracting industries back to their countries.
While China demanded in 2021 a GDP of 29 trillion USD, the Indians followed in 2021 with a GDP of 11 trillion USD, Russia, however, remained stuck at a GDP of just 4 trillion USD.
Where else can Putin look for wealth accumulation?
In Putin’s plan, Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus must act as the tightly run passthrough areas in a bid to raise the abysmal economic performance of Russia. Military might is one, but to fit in as equal partners on the World Economy scene is what Vladimir Putin truly craves.
With no proximity of opportunities to other areas such as the South Americans close to the United States, this special operation is nothing else but to gain access to the European cash cow worth roughly 27 trillion USD each year.
When the West immediately responded by financially supporting Ukraine through the World Bank and IMF of 723 million USD with another 3 billion USD in making, Vladimir Putin couldn’t have better set out his plans in motion against Ukraine.
The repeated calls from the Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, and the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not only are legitimate requests to keep Ukraine from Putin’s hands, moreover a wake-up call to the European countries with the message "never again" including from Russian World dominance.
