![]() It is the spirit of the Ukrainian resistance that feels so familiar to this book. ![]() A fetid campaign of assassinations, false flags, cynical disinformation, wanton destruction, harassment and suppression, assault and annexation – with hardly any response from the civilized world – made him feel invincible. Vladimir Putin’s behavior over the last 20 years has clearly led us here. If anyone was paying attention, and West was paying attention, the expected and inevitable conclusion to her narrative was clear to see for many years. She published this book in 1941, not long after the Battle of Britain and the German invasion of Yugoslavia. She wrote her book during the five years following the Anschluss, Munich, the bisection of Poland, and the invasion of France, the Low Countries, and Norway to the moment that Britain stood alone against Germany. So it is as I finish reading Black Lamb and Grey Falcon that I feel a temporal kinship with Rebecca West. ![]() The consequences of Russia’s attack on its neighbor will run far. ![]() The world has witnessed the most grotesque violation of the international order since the end of World War II. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in life they were healthy.ĪS I WRITE this the first diplomatic talks between Russia and Ukraine to resolve the armed conflict between the two countries have ended. I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. ![]()
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