A comment received from a friend: <<Russia has been threatening an invasion of Ukraine for months now, trying to extend its control from Crimea and Donbass to the whole country. Basically an imperialist threat to a former colony from the new tsar, Putin.>>
One could argue that broadly similar is the case with Taiwan. Sukla On Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 22:20 Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Be Very Afraid! > A war - even a conventional one, could be pretty disastrous for the world > at large, already badly hit by a pandemic raging for over two years by now. > > <<Ukraine was hit by a cyberattack splashing a warning across government > websites to "be afraid and expect the worst", while Russia, which has > massed 100,000 troops on its neighbour's frontier, released pictures of > more of its forces on the move. > > The cyber attack unfolded hours after talks wrapped up with no > breakthrough between Russia and Western allies, which fear Moscow could > launch a new military assault on a country it invaded in 2014. > > Kyiv said President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had proposed a three-way meeting > with the leaders of Russia and the United States. Zelenskiy's chief of > staff, Andriy Yermak, said the "life and death" of his country hung in the > balance. > > "The drumbeat of war is sounding loud," Michael Carpenter, U.S. Ambassador > to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), had said > at the close of talks on Thursday.>> > > (Excerpted from: < > https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/expect-worst-ukraine-hit-by-cyberattack-russia-moves-more-troops-2022-01-14/ > >.) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZhPg_DJbBgmvkKyfeZToRK_QY5_LHAMexAVR_vAVdAQ7Q%40mail.gmail.com.
