The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday March 4th, 2022
Russia-Ukraine war upsets the power protocol in Europe by Kola King
Events in the past week moved with so much dizzying speed and ferocity that everyone was caught napping and left with bated breath. The Russian invasion of Ukraine occurred in a lightning operation such that even the American and European powers were caught napping, despite the fact that the US had repeatedly provided intelligence, which indicated that Russia was massing its troops along the Ukrainian borders, and could invade Ukraine at short notice. US satellite images had captured and revealed the movement of Russian military hardware and personnel with accurate precision.
With the launch of the Russian offensive, the US and its allies arranged a cocktail of sanctions aimed at deterring President Vladimir Putin from going ahead with his planned invasion of Ukraine. The US and European powers were dazed by Russia’s audacity and left only to mouth vacuous platitudes about the consequences of a Russian invasion. Already, US president Joe Biden has said the US troops will not be sent to Ukraine, but troops are being sent to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries.
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The Little Dictator #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“In the Kremlin
Poring over
A world map,
A global monster,
A once KGB thug.”
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Nikolai Kondratiev: The Long Economic Cycles by Rene Wadlow
At a time when civil society voices in Russia are being increasingly restricted, and there are wide-spread arrests of intellectuals, it is inevitable that we think of the the repression of intellectuals by Stalin in the 1930s. Thus we recall Nikolai Kondratiev (also written as Kondratieff) born on 4 March 1892 and exicuted on 17 September 1938 as part of Stalin’s “Great Purge” of those who disagreed with him. Konratiev held that the 1929 “Great Depression” was a normal part of a long 30 to 60-year cycle and that there would be a return to capitalist investment linked to new technologies and the related need for capital. Stalin believed that the depression was a sign of the permanent collapse of the capitalist system which would be replaced by Communism. Academic debate was not the style of Stalin. Kondratiev who was already in prison for eight years was shot by a firing squad.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #005 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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