When The Winds
Of War Do Shift-From The Archives- The Crimea-This Isn't Your Father's Light
Brigade
By Lance
Lawrence
I am not sure
why I was assigned to do the caption on this archival piece since I am neither
Russian nor Ukrainian. Have no organic stake in what happened there several years
ago. Or for that matter British which is
the last reference point I remember about this piece of geography from
background about The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
when Lord Cardigan goofed during the Battle of Balaclava (great name). Moreover,
I am not like Fritz Taylor a military man who could tell what the details were
of the Russian advances into the Ukraine. Nor am I like Frank Jackman who would
put this whole event in a basket and give some cogent geopolitical analysis of
the meaning of what occurred there several years ago.
I do not like
Vladimir Putin, nobody does except maybe Donald Trump and then maybe it is because
the guy has some dirt on him or better that he would like to run Operation USA
like Putin runs Operation Russia (with Crimea). I do not like politics
particularly except to hold my nose up at them while bathing in the cultural
waters that are my bailiwick. I do like people, peoples if that is the case, to
have their own country, nation I guess is a better way to say it so I like, and
maybe support what is called the right to self-determination. Hell, we in the United
States, in Operation USA practically invented the concept.
I also like that
right to be more than abstract and not a matter of accident like in Crimea. The
accident part by fiat from Moscow by dead ass Nikita Khrushchev back a few
decades ago throwing Crimea into the Ukraine. That despite a fairly long
history of that place being as filled with Russians with cultural affinities as
any Russian in Saint Petersburg. So maybe, just may site manager Greg Green remembered
from a few years ago that what bad boy Putin did in support of the Crimea I
said then I could support -while holding my nose.
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