This
is not the time and venue to go into a deep analysis of the current situation
with Russia and the Ukraine, though it does have potential repercussions
worldwide. If Putin retakes the Crimea,
for example, what will his thoughts be regarding Alaska? If the United States is perceived as weak and
unwilling to flex its military and diplomatic muscle, then will the Japanese
decide to depend upon themselves for military defenses? And if so, what will be their designs on
Korea? (Remember that unrestrained Japanese military power has brought about
incidents at Pearl Harbor, Bataan,
Manila, Nanking and Alexandra
Hospital, et cetera). And so on.
My
perspective is colored by the fact that I am a Jewish American, and all four of
my grandparents came here from what is now the former Soviet Union. Two of my grandparents were from the Ukraine
and one was from the Crimea (which had not yet been officially turned over to
the Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier who himself was from the
Ukraine).
I am
concerned for the safety and well-being of the Jewish communities in the
Ukraine and the Crimea. Historically, neither the Russians nor the Ukrainians have
been particularly friendly towards us, nor have many other ethnic groups in the
mix, including the Crimean Tartars, many of whom collaborated with the Nazis
during World War II. On the other hand, I
have no quarrel with the Russian or Ukrainian or Tartar or anyone else who
lives his or her life and minds his or her business and does not assault or
attack others.
The
situation is very complex, and very dangerous, to say the least.
On
the college campus where I teach, there is a small but vocal group of leftists
(or rather, far, far left of the left leftists) who regularly set up tables to
pass out their pap propaganda in support of all kinds of leftist causes (and
against freedom and American causes, but that is redundant). Today, their tables were not set up in the
usual locations, and the useful idiots were nowhere to be found in the Student
Union building.
My
foray to the Student Union building (I had a meeting with someone whose office
happens to be there) was just a sample of one.
But I cannot help but wonder what the Red Lefties are trying to mentally
wrestle with when they know that they will receive ridicule at best for backing
the Comintern Conspiracy, and are too much owned on a lock, stock, and barrel
basis by the Communist Party to back the
Ukrainians.
These
are not fun times to be a leftist.
Labels: Crimea, Geopolitics, Leftists, Russia, useful idiot
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