KIEV, THE TAG OF WAR
A VIEW POINT
By: C. Harrison/February 26, 2014
New York, In Kiev, the 8th largest city in the world a tag-o-f- war is going on between Europe and Russia battling over the Ukraine. The contingents, young people who do not want the status quo and want a better way of life in the coming centuries.
The Ukraine over the years since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, got their independence and tasted freedom but, because of their complacency and ties to their lively hood of oil in Russia, not to mention there wanting to be treated like their counterparts in the West, the views of the young, who yawn for freedom, wants to stop the manipulation of political systems, media power and cronyisms, (which as of right now, these entities are very problematic in all of the middle east), which is now roasting in Keiv, the young wants change.
The Ukraine in its independence saw short lived recovery and progressive decline in its economy lead by Leonid Kravchuk. His successor Kuchma, could not undone the decline fast enough; thus, forces got behind a new leader Viktor Yuschchenko, who look to the west and Nato for help, not getting what he wanted because of various opinions and the fear of hostility from Russia; thereafter, showed too much solidarity for and in Russia’s economic interest. A revolution ensue and Viktor Yanukovych won in 2010; soon after he took over he stair back policies to Russia and imprison Ms. Tymoshenko, Yuschchenko’s Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko’s mistress.
So, driven by the young the Ukraine is informally under going rapid changes. More importantly, no one wants to go back to old Russia, the USSR. At stake is the Ukraine’s new found lifestyle and a luminous economic crisis. The nail biter, the Ukraine’s depends on Russia for gas supplies and the fact that it is center strategically part of a pipeline transit route for Russian gas exports to Europe, the Ukraine sandwiched between Europe and Russia.
Who wins, the Russian pipeline pivotal to two Country’s (Ukraine) and Europe growth or Freedom and stronghold to the west-Nato. Well, I summit that the West will eventually win-out, even though Russia is stepping up its rhetoric against the Ukrainian people. Why because of Sochi; Sochi gave us a glimpse of the determinacies of what Russia will become. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s Prime Minister and gladiator I believe is not such a hard nose as we have come to believe, behind the exterior he has a big heart, you can see it in his eyes.
You see, Putin is a rich man and because he is so he will govern himself in that manner and run his country like any rich man would thus, he would want to keep the 46% of richest people in the world, who happens to live in the Ukraine going-to dominate, they won’t allow him to do otherwise. Unless of course he loves his people that much and use that big heart that I see that he has to help them.
