Ukraine: A Latest Powerplay Between Capitalists and Communists

The Russian - Ukraine war is in fact the long due conflict between Communist in the form of Russia and Western Capitalists in the form of expanding NATO in Europe. 

It dated back to the end of World War II when Soviet Union joined Allied Block (USA, Britain and France)  against Germany. After the defeat of Germans, Allied countries divided Germany (as spoils of war) between East and West through Berlin Wall which then marked the beginning of Cold War between USSR and USA. 

At the end of Cold War, USSR was dissolved into fifteen independent counties that included Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine which has now become the latest war zone in Europe.   

After World War II, countries in Western Europe along with United States of America formed an alliance in the form of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949 to protect each other against any future offensive from the East. 

The Cold war was ended in 1990, but NATO was still expanding its alliances in Europe. In 1999, only nine years after the fall of Soviet Union, three of the former Soviet countries joined NATO while in 2014, seven more European countries became the part of this treaty hence leaving only Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine between NATO and Russia.  

Although Ukraine became the partner of NATO (not the member) in 1994 but the current escalation of the tension in the region started in 2013 when Ukraine reached the agreement to be the part of European Union. There came the twist. When it came to signing this agreement, President Viktor Yanukovych backed off in favor of the closer ties with Russia. The Ukraine faced riots against this decision and President Yanukovych had to flee the country. 

Then, the new president signed the agreement of association with European Union in 2014. For President Putin, This meant the loss of political influence of Russian in Ukraine. At that point, Putin did not directly invade Ukraine, but took the benefit of unrest and changing regime in Ukraine. In early 2014, Putin sent Russian military forces in Crimea - a Ukrainian peninsula in the South, and took over the charge (a smart military move on his part). Although, Crimea had been the part of Ukraine since 1950s yet most of the population speaks Russian and even before this attack a referendum was made in Crimea in which the people voted to be the part of Russia. 

It is worth mentioning here that the result of this referendum was called "illegal" and "against the Ukrainian Constitution" by the US President, Barak Obama. Hence once again proving the fact that this war is not between two countries, it is a conflict between two ideologies i.e., Capitalism and Communism.         

Another smart military move by the Russian President was to take benefit of the ethnic and communist separatists movements in Donbass region which made of Donetsk and Luhansk. 

To suppress these anti-separatists campaigns and to support capitalists ideology, Ukrainian government  had been receiving continuous support from the West. As Russian considers this region as its own so this Western support and NATO expansion towards the East provoked Russians to take offensive measures by actually invading Ukraine in Feb 2022 regardless of several warnings of economic sanctions from US and other powerful counties. 

The outcome of this conflict is yet to be decided. Lets hope for the containment of this conflict as early as possible without the intervention of foreign conspiracies. If, God Forbid, this escalates, the world has not learnt any lesson from the two World Wars; foreign intrusions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Kashmir and Vietnam; and the gulf war as these conflicts collectively took the lives of billions and torn apart the future of many countries.