Goodbye Kiev

It’s been almost thirty years since the Russian nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in the Ukraine blew up and relegated thousands of square miles around it to the status of future desert.  Since then, the EU has come into existence to give refugees to the west of the Ukraine a gateway to survival in Europe.

Russia did the opposite.  Moscow closed its borders and dissolved the Soviet Union after the reactor exploded, thereby absolving itself of any responsibility for the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the Ukraine.  Today, Putin is reluctantly providing troops to help with the demolition of radiation damaged Ukrainian cities, and the West is cooperating by portraying this forced depopulation program as a greedy Russian land grab.

Here is what I perceive to be the problem.  Kiev is a huge city almost at the epicenter of the 1986 disaster.  I suspect that nobody can cope with the human radiation tragedy now coming to light in Kiev.  The truth told thirty years ago might have helped, but it’s too late for truth now, and nobody wants Kiev.  I think that Putin sat down with Hollande, Merkel and Poroshenko to talk about it at Minsk, and they came up with nothing.  Nobody can afford to help.  Too late.

Unfortunately, there is a nuclear solution to the problem at Kiev, and it could be described as an act of nuclear war.  Wouldn’t it be sad if the Minsk meeting was held for the purpose of deciding on which country would take responsibility for wiping the city of Kiev off the face of the Earth?  World War Three?  I hope I’m wrong, but here is my advice: Get out, NOW.

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