My generation and that of our parents was until yesterday spared the threat of war. Since last Thursday, the world as we know it, the comforts of Western life, has been under mortal threat. In the Europe of peace, the fear of war has crept in after Russia invaded Ukraine in an act of aggression that brought images of World War II to the minds of many.
Putin and Hitler, the invasion of Ukraine and the annexation of Czechoslovakia. Both invoked historical revisionism as an argument for war, a need for „living space”. Just as Hitler wanted to erase the humiliation of losing World War I, Putin too wants to make up for Russia’s loss of a great war, the Cold War, by recently expressing an ambition to restore the past glory of his empire, albeit a fantasy glory.
But in addition to the historical motivation, there are purely economic explanations for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Putin has seen the moment fast approaching when Russia will have nothing left to sell to Europe, the main source of money and prosperity for himself and the Russian oligarchy.
Russian oil and gas won’t be in such high demand and at such good prices in a future green Europe,
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