Sowing dragon’s teeth — the role of Western foreign policy in the Ukraine tragedy
With the conflict in Ukraine marking its second anniversary, and with no sign of it abating anytime soon, it is worth going deep into its causes and the trajectory of events leading up to it. This to push back against a narrative proferred by Western ideologues that has been so shallow it has been embarrassing to behold.
Ever since the coup in Kiev in early 2014, materially and politically supported by Washington and its European allies, succeeded in toppling the democratically-elected government of Viktor Yanukovych — leading to resistance in the east of the country where a large proportion of the population are ethnic Russians and/or Russian speakers, and also in large swathes of southern Ukraine, particularly Crimea — there was a grim inevitability with regard to what unfolded on February 24 2022.
From the Kremlin’s perspective, Russia’s military campaign amounts to a long overdue counter against Western aggression in the form of the eastward expansion of NATO, to the point where it had begun to pose an unacceptable threat to the country’s security. Putin and the Kremlin had over many years been nothing if not…
