Their chief foreign affairs columnist’s claims that Ukraine can replicate South Korea’s economic success due to its continued access to the Black Sea, his hyping up of exaggerated reports about Russian losses, and praise for Ukraine’s continued existence as a state are meant to justify freezing the conflict by sometime next year.
Of course they are. They will do anything to keep Ukraine as a MIC cash cow. An armistice with no peace treaty enables a constant state of readiness for renewed war, which means more profits for the MIC. The parallel you draw with Korea is a valid one.
Unfortunately for them, Putin knows this. It's not as if Russia doesn't have a border with Korea, after all. Russia doesn't have to accept an armed outpost of the US Empire in Ukraine like the USSR and China did in Korea in 1953. A lot has changed in 70 years, but the Financial Times isn't ready to admit that yet.
Of course they are. They will do anything to keep Ukraine as a MIC cash cow. An armistice with no peace treaty enables a constant state of readiness for renewed war, which means more profits for the MIC. The parallel you draw with Korea is a valid one.
Unfortunately for them, Putin knows this. It's not as if Russia doesn't have a border with Korea, after all. Russia doesn't have to accept an armed outpost of the US Empire in Ukraine like the USSR and China did in Korea in 1953. A lot has changed in 70 years, but the Financial Times isn't ready to admit that yet.