Russia Loves Its Small Wars -- David Axe & Matthew Gault, War is Boring
Moscow’s long history of short border conflicts
Ukraine is on the brink of war. On Feb. 22, pro-European protesters toppled the government of Pres. Viktor Yanukovych, forcing the pro-Russian Yanukovych to flee to Rostov-on-Don. Parliament announced it would hold fresh elections in May, but Ukraine’s ethnic Russians and their allies could have other ideas.
Gunmen seized airports in the Crimea region, which is heavily Russian and where Moscow leases a naval base. Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin called for a return to “normalcy”—whatever that means—and the Kremlin proceeded with a major military exercise on Russia’s border with Ukraine.
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My Comment: The Chechen war has so far been the bloodiest .... but if the events in Ukraine spin out of control, it would probably become Europe's bloodiest war since the end of the Second World War .... even dwarfing the Yugoslav civil war during the 1990s.
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