Ukraine - it feels odd spelling it with a "k", when the opposite is increasingly prevalent in the K-loving Swedish language - can still sport a number of followers abroad. This is not the case for a large swathe of Ukrainian exiles, a term that seems increasingly ambiguous as a number of mysterious deaths occurring across Western .
Assassinations within Russia, aimed at Russian generals, may seem offhand (echoing the late, if now increasingly younger Hitchens' remark about Pearl Harbor, almost a "u" there) but seriously within the ambit of modern, hybrid, hyper-mechanised warfare, especially if one considers the serenity with which Russia employs special forces, decapitation strategies and poisonings against "peaceful" traitors and dissidents in Western capitals,
The grander question here posed is: To what extent ought or southern Slavic allies, as they are yet and for good reason, to utilise methods so decried, to the verge of being considered Russian in substance rather than utility,
Wrestle not with a monster, as Nietzsche warned, fully aware those who would heed the warning would do or be in the act of doing so anyway, prophetically ascribing not only the mutual escalation of hostilities, but also - and more importantly - the increasing moral decline of the importance of who. Who, who wins, in Ukraine, in the grander game for Eastern Europe (being played from both fronts, I will not abstain from saying it and nobody worth taking seriously would negate it)? We have cause to expect, as in the campaign of 1610, and certainly of 1708 - being a defensive war, after all - and possibly in 1812, who knows, either being (depending on your more immediate, material interests) the cause of our misfortune three years before,
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