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cimoreneNBC Opinion: Why does Russia want to invade Ukraine? To rewrite the post-Cold War order
Moscow’s demands were always about more than the security arrangements in Ukraine: The West can’t say we weren’t warned, Feb. 23, 2022, by Casey Michel, author of "American Kleptocracy"
For analysis, I mean.
I have noticed a tendency for my American friends and family to be more surprised, and to have missed more of the background stuff going on with Putin's Russia, than I expected, having spent my adult life here in Finland.
I learned about the Maidan protests and the 2014 invasion of Crimea in realtime with my Ukrainian and baltic friends in the advanced Finnish class I was taking at the time, and Finland is full of Russians who have fled Russia. I think we have two Ukrainians and a Russian out of like less than twenty employees at the store where I still (until next Wednesday) work.
So... talking to my family about this today gave me a bit of worldview vertigo.
Moscow’s demands were always about more than the security arrangements in Ukraine: The West can’t say we weren’t warned, Feb. 23, 2022, by Casey Michel, author of "American Kleptocracy"
For analysis, I mean.
I have noticed a tendency for my American friends and family to be more surprised, and to have missed more of the background stuff going on with Putin's Russia, than I expected, having spent my adult life here in Finland.
I learned about the Maidan protests and the 2014 invasion of Crimea in realtime with my Ukrainian and baltic friends in the advanced Finnish class I was taking at the time, and Finland is full of Russians who have fled Russia. I think we have two Ukrainians and a Russian out of like less than twenty employees at the store where I still (until next Wednesday) work.
So... talking to my family about this today gave me a bit of worldview vertigo.
