From Kyiv to Vilnius: Those Five Hundred Days That Should Never Have Been
Back From Kyiv 3: The Building of a Nation
Nicolas Tenzer expresses my frustration with the West's approach-avoidance conflict and its unwillingness forthrightly to confront twenty years of policy failure toward Russia and its lessons:
"But the essential thing now is for these democratic leaders to understand the immensity of the crimes they have allowed to happen, and to realize the futility, if not of their fears, at least of the balance they have struck between allowing the crimes to take place and that fear. ... By deciding not to put an end to the war, the Allies are paving the way for the destruction of a nation." -
Russian tanks destroyed in front of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed monastery, Kyiv. July 6, 2023. Photo: Nicolas Tenzer
Less than two months after the start of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, I had returned to Ukraine—to Lviv, Kyiv, Bucha and Borodyanka. The elected representatives and inhabitants of these towns were as if in shock at the cold-blooded …
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