Furthermore, the Ukraine conflict has quickly widened, drawing in the United States and other nations, particularly members of NATO and other European countries, that have provided badly needed weapons and other supplies to the beleaguered Ukrainians and levied economic sanctions on the Russians. Much like the bloody conflicts in Indochina and Afghanistan, it has generated fierce, patriotic resistance to the larger, heavily armed invaders. The Ukraine war also exhibits some other continuities with the past. In addition, among the nations assisting Ukraine to resist Russia's invasion, there is much talk of defending democracy against autocracy, although the actual motive appears to be to frustrate a revival of Russian expansionism. They range from the initial Russian claim that its massive military buildup was merely a training exercise, to later, flimsy contentions that the war was necessary for the “denazification” of Ukraine and to stop it from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-the latter a prospect that, if it occurred, would be consonant with international law and extraordinarily unlikely to lead to a NATO attack upon Russia. Like many past wars, this one is cloaked in lies.
The war includes a military assault by a large, heavily armed nation upon a smaller, lightly armed one, an attempt to overthrow the Ukrainian government by force of arms, and an apparent goal of absorbing all or part of Ukraine into an enlarged Russian empire. Indeed, the Russian government's act of military aggression provides in many ways a classic example of the violent attacks upon other territories and, later, nations that have occurred over thousands of years. The war in Ukraine and many of the governmental and public responses to it are deeply disturbing.Īt the least, the war exposes the shallowness of the contention that the world is becoming more peaceful.
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