Trivial pursuit 20th anniversary edition3/10/2023 It would, however, mean re-occupying Poland. That would certainly be in accord with Putin's Great-Russian nationalism. There is a third possible answer to Question One-the question as to why Putin attacked-and that is: because he wants to recreate the 19th-century Russian Empire. voters are willing to see our soldiers die fighting for Lithuania?" and "Why is defending Lithuania's border with Belarus more important than defending our own southern border?" If Putin is bent on recreating the U.S.S.R., these questions may not be merely rhetorical much longer. should get out of NATO have been fond of posing rhetorical questions like: "What proportion of U.S. Those of us who've been arguing for years that the U.S.A. They are all now in NATO so under Article 5 of the NATO treaty, if Putin were to attack them, we'd be obliged to join in defending them. included the Baltic states-Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. That would be a more serious matter for the U.S.A. The second likely answer to Question One is that Putin wants to recreate the U.S.S.R., the collapse of which he once called "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." ![]() I don't know why Solzhenitsyn included Kazakhstan there, nor do I know anything about the place except that it's big, resource-rich, and moderately Russified-twenty percent ethnic Russian, mostly up along the border with Russia, says Wikipedia. Ukraine has been more resistant hence this current assault. One: Putin wants to "gather the Russian lands" in the sense Solzhenitsyn expressed thirty years ago: bringing the three Slavic republics-Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine-along with Kazakhstan all together in a unitary state.īelarus, as far as I can gather, is already there-just a Russian puppet state. The first question has two likely answers. So now the questions are: Why did he? How will it play out? What effect will it have on us in the U.S.A.? I'm obliged to a friend for all that, a guy who knows more about music than I ever shall.Ġ2-Why did Putin attack? Last week's Radio Derb started off with the question: Will he or won't he? After perusing some well-informed commentary from Russia experts, I came down on the side of "he will." Well, he did. ![]() As it happened, the gate was never actually built but we still have the music. The particular picture that inspired this tenth movement of the suite was a sketch the artist had done for a monumental new city gate the authorities wanted to build for Kyiv. The pictures were by an artist who had died the year before, and who had been a close friend of Mussorgsky. ![]() "Pictures at an Exhibition" was inspired by, duh, pictures the composer saw at an exhibition in 1874. And yes: I am suspending Radio Derb's usual toponymical conservatism here, saying "Kyiv," not "Kiev." Please don't be alarmed: I shall still favor "Peking" for the capital of China. ![]() Horowitz, generally regarded as the greatest concert pianist of the last century, was born in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. And Radio Derb is on the air! Our opening music this week was a snippet of the great Vladimir Horowitz playing the last movement of Mussorgsky's piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition." Permit me to explain. (Not as dumb as Sotomayor.)Ĥ2:17 Olympics end. (Should be embarrassing.)Ĥ1:22 His Supreme Court nominee. (Ten years on from Trayvon Martin.)Ĥ0:25 Biden's first SOTU coming up. (Win the Cold War, lose the peace.)ģ1:57 News from our Cold Civil War. (Dismal demographics on both sides.)Ģ6:34 Thirty years of folly. 03:06 Why did Putin attack? (Will he stop at the Dniepr?)Ġ8:51 How will Russia-Ukraine play out? (And what will China do?)ġ5:11 How shall we be affected? (No neon!)Ģ0:40 The low-TFR war.
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