Sunday…
…will be an important day for Ukraine, but for a lot of non-Ukrainians as well.
It’s one of those moments where otherwise smart and reasonable people start talking nonsense.
Nonsense about how U.S. funding is behind the mob that forced an undemocratic reversal of a perfectly fine result. You see, we can’t be too demanding and expect democracy to be perfect in a place like that. It took us 200 or 300 years to work it out ourselves, and besides, who are we to judge?
It’s the same attitude described to such devastating effect by Brendan Simms in his Unfinest Hour with regards to the war in Bosnia. Not an exclusively English attitude, but certainly typically English.
Instead, I just propose to see what happens, and to hope that the more trustworthy of the two candidates wins. And I have no doubt who that is.
