The crisis in Ukraine is serious. It has spiraled out of control. Unless something is done soon to alter its trajectory, catastrophic consequences for the entire world are probable. We can not afford to ignore this. It is no longer just a Ukrainian problem, it is a global problem. The danger is immanent.
Floyd Rudmin, a professor at the University of Tromso in Norway, explains the scope of this threat and outlines what needs to be done to lessen it, here:
http://www.greanvillepost.com/...
He begins with this:
The crisis in Ukraine is serious. At some point soon, reality needs to become the priority. No more name-calling. No more blaming. If there are any adults in the room, they need to stand up. The crisis in Ukraine is going critical, and that is a fact.
The first fact. The Ukraine has 15 nuclear reactors loaded with a 1000 tons or more of radioactive fuels. The largest nuclear reactor in Europe is on the Dneiper River, a little north of Crimea. Plus, there are the 4 Chernobyl reactors, still leaking radiation, still needing constant attention. A rational world cannot tolerate chaos, or a collapsed economy, or a civil war, or any kind of war, in a region with nuclear reactors. If the power grid fails, if workers are unable or unwilling to show up for their shifts, if there is an act of sabotage, an act of war, if something happens to a nuclear reactor, then the Ukraine, Europe, Russia, and the rest of the world will receive heavy doses of radioactive fallout. There is now no government in Ukraine with the resources to manage a nuclear catastrophe
And then this:
The second fact. The ability to start a war has now been distributed across hundreds of relatively low-ranked individuals, on both sides. NATO nations, including Canada, have moved military aircraft to front-line states and have begun armed missions along the Russian border. Russia has been matching these with deployments of interceptors and missile batteries along its borders and in Byelorussia. Accusations of border violations are already appearing..........
There is much more, all of it essential reading IMO. Possible solutions are proposed further along in the article.
A question for Kossers: Is it possible for us to stop hurling epithets at one another long enough to discuss our mutual peril as rational, civilized adults?