The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday February 24th, 2023
Ukraine: Moving Toward Negotiations? by Rene Wadlow
Frederick L. Schuman (1904-1981) was the U.S. international relations scholar whose writings on the Soviet Union were important contributions in the 1950-1960s and whose birth anniversary we note on 24 February. 24 February is also the one-year anniversary of the Russian intervention in Ukraine. The “Special Military Operation ” – Russian invasion of Ukraine has created security tensions we thought were left behind with the end of the Cold War in 1991. In many ways, I have the feeling of being back to the early 1950s when I started to analyse world politics. Thus I turned back to Frederich Schuman.
He sets out the broad framework. “In a world community lacking world government, and therefore afficted with anarchy in the relationships among rival sovereignties, the successive patterns of power politics which follow one another bewildering in the kaleidoscope of world affairs change rapidly and radically through time. They are never the product of the decisions of any one group of power-holders or policy-makers in any one sovereignty, but they are always the product of the confused interaction among rival policy-holders in rival sovereignties. The resulting design for power, with no one willing the result, is sometimes a design for conflict and violence, and sometimes a design for peace and stability.”
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The Magnificent Copper Beech #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“High, very high over the river,
Alone in a small clearing,
In a place from where you can see as far as
The eye will take you,
Stands that tree, noble in height, noble in its crown, richly swelling its delicious brownish ‘reddish girth.”
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AntySaurus Prick #60 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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