Source: Antiwar.com
by Eugene M Chudnovsky
“I was born in a Jewish family in Leningrad – Russia and lived in Kharkiv – Ukraine for 30 years before emigrating to the United States 40 years ago. Back then, the war between Russia and Ukraine was unimaginable. Today, after hundreds of thousands on both sides are dead and memorable places of my youth have been reduced to rubble, I am trying to make sense of it and wonder how it is going to end. … The consequences of poor judgment often become irreversible. The brutality and illegality of Russia’s actions notwithstanding, the prospect that it will give back the annexed Ukrainian lands (now incorporated into the Russian Constitution) is next to none.” [editor’s note: Much of that “annexed” land doesn’t have to be “given back” because Russia doesn’t control it – TLK] (02/24/25)