by Eze Eluchie
I usually
tend to proffer answers to questions or project perspectives from a sub-Saharan
viewpoint in my Blogposts – the fluidity of the evolving Ukrainian situation
makes it imperative to ask quite a lot of questions, The answers to these
questions will serve to found subsequent perspectives on the rather interesting (to
the observer from afar, certainly not to those living in the front-lines in
Ukraine) developments in Ukraine and the volatile Black Sea region.
Some of the intriguing
questions include:
1. Could any discerning observer have
predicted the robust reaction by the Russian Federation to the unfolding crisis
in Ukraine?
2. If yes, should stop-gap measures not
have been thought out in advance to ameliorate the reactions now evolving?
3. Did Russia’s offer of Billions of
Dollars in economic aid to the ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich a
few weeks ago not serve as sufficient indication to all concerned o f the extent to which
the Russian Federation was willing to go to protect its historical cultural,
economic and political ties to Ukraine?
4. Did the aggressive support given to
the opposition to Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich by the European Union
and its member States, inclusive of the leaked private conversations where the US Ambassador to
Ukraine was discussing preferred outcomes of the Ukrainian ‘revolution’, serve
as sufficient impetus to raise Russian fears as to the purport and direction of
the Ukrainian opposition?
5. Was there a bit too much haste in ‘recognizing’
the ‘opposition’ as the defacto government in Ukraine – long before the said ‘opposition’
had actually formed anything akin to a Government?
6. In the light of the February 21st
agreement brokered between the Ukrainian opposition and the President Viktor
Yanukovich administration by a group of European Union Foreign Ministers with
the tacit approval of the Office of the Secretary General of the United
Nations, was the forced removal and sack from office of President Viktor
Yanukovich legitimate under International Laws?
With the
entry of Russia’s Armed Forces into Ukraine, Cold War II, which has been
brewing for years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, is officially on. The Russian Army is clearly not in Ukraine to see the sights.
What
implications for us in sub-Saharan Africa, and Nigeria in particular, we will
have to deal with our domestic situation by ourselves, the best ways we deem
fit. There will be far greater things of concern to the United States and its
allies in the short-term than which terror group is blowing up school buildings
across West African States or which East African country is passing laws to
protect its social values.
Let’s be
ready, we are living in quite interesting times.
Picture: Flags of
Russia and the United States of America
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