Monday 6 March 2023

Will Ukraine be destroyed before there is a peace deal?

How many cities and towns in Ukraine are going to be reduced to rubble before some sort of ceasefire and settlement is agreed. Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine is currently being destroyed by Russian artillery, rockets and missiles. Whatever happens in this beleaguered city, whether the Ukrainians manage to hang on to it or the Russians sweep in and grab it, there will be nothing left. Like Mariupol on the Sea of Azov coastline which was hammered much earlier in the war, the scenes of devastation are apocalyptic. How can anyone still be living there. Most have evacuated but one day they will return and to what? In Turkey and northern Syria there is even greater destruction following the series of earthquakes. But that was Nature's responsibility. In Ukraine every piece of destruction has been caused by Man. The man being Vladimir Putin. Does he get satisfaction from seeing the devastation his bombers, rockets, missiles and artillery shells are doing? Will Russia play any role in the future in rebuilding Ukraine? Of course not. When the war is over and assuming that Putin will fail totally to conquer the whole country, then it will be the western powers and Japan and others who will come to the rescue. If the war continues on the same scale for another one or two years, then truly the rebuilding of Ukrainian cities and towns will cost trillions of dollars and take decades to complete.

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