Published 2022-12-01
“…As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches a full year, it is becoming clearer through the Putin administration’s rhetoric that the essential reason for its war against Ukraine is the fact that the increasingly repressive authoritarian Putin regime is finding irredentist nationalism with nostalgic claim on Soviet lost lands, especially within the Kievan Rus’ heartland, is impressively useful in rallying support from Russian voter-citizens, and the post-Orange Revolution Ukraine drifting away from Russian influence towards the liberal democratic Europe of the European Union (EU) is posing a grave threat to the authoritarian Putin regime’s increasingly repressive stranglehold on Russian political power, in stark parallel to the East Asian scene where a vibrantly liberal democratic Taiwan has become an increasingly pain-in-the-neck contrast in the eyes of the brutal, repressive Chinese Communist Party (CCP)1
dictatorship of mainland China. Definitely becoming the mortal worries of the repressive Putin regime of post-Communist Russia and the brutal Communist Party
dictatorship of mainland China is the fact that behind both Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (which bears a striking similarity to the now legendary People’s Power revolution of the Philippines that overthrew the Ferdinand
Marcos regime) and the amazing transition to liberal democracy in Taiwan
during the later part of the Chiang Ching-kuo administration (and looking north, South Korea’s transition away from military
dictatorship towards the end of the Chun Doo-hwan presidency), the shadow of the United States of America and her European allies’ influence and support were clearly evident – and as the CCP regime had observed, it was also clear the U.S. and her European allies were equally behind Hong Kong’s civil disobedience from the Umbrella Movement to the anti-extradition-to-China protests where many protestors were receiving not only moral and material support but even tactical trainings from American and European civil rights groups. …”
Get full text
Article