"Thoughts are turning to ideas how “justice” is to be meted out to Russian leaders, with
suggestions from top political figures in recent days ranging from war crimes
trials to Ukrainian tanks parked in Moscow’s Red Square.
Military ambitions took a considerable leap forward this week with comments attributed to
Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov who
spoke of “justice” in the form of troops marching on Moscow.
The remarkable comments from Danilov were reported in the
British high-circulation tabloid The Sun, which claimed an interview with the
Ukranian politician and relayed him as saying: “Our tanks will be on Red Square
and that will be justice.
Whether Danilov was articulating actual Ukrainian policy to
push the front line 300 miles back to Moscow, or if he was speaking
metaphorically, or exaggerating for effect is not made clear in the Sun report.
Breitbart News has approached the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for
clarification.
Should Kyiv envision a march on the river Moskva or not, a
NATO member state prime minister has certainly called for tough
repercussions for Russia’s present leaders this week. Speaking at the Munich
Security Conference Estonia’s Kaja Kallas said Moscow must be held to account
and discussed changes for the Russian people, which could imply a Western
occupation of Russia, or at the very least the end of the Russian state as we
now know it.
Calling for action that she compared to the 1945-47
Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals, Prime Minister Kallas said after the
Second World War and Cold War, citizens of former Axis powers and former Soviet
Bloc nations had a chance to learn about the crimes of their former leaders,
but this had never happened in Russia itself. Talking about the education of
Russian citizens and “re-written” history books, Kallas said education in that
country was still from “Soviet” textbooks and this would have to change in today's world.
She said: “accountability is of the utmost importance, and also to have the understanding within Russian
society, and also contemplation. Without that, I don’t think [long-term peace]
is possible.”
This went way beyond a question of a Russian future with or
without Putin, she said, and that the changes would have to be deeper. Kallas,
who is well known for being bullish on Russia, told the audience at the
conference that: “it’s the nation, and what is in it. What are they
celebrating? Being the empire or not? We have to cut the cycle.”
While Kallas did not explicitly call for a Western military
occupation of Russia, the examples given — Nuremberg, Tokyo, and the
re-building of Germany and Japan as modern democracies after being totalitarian states — did require total military victory and long-term
occupation, a link others quickly made after her remarks were broadcast.
While the West’s military support for Ukraine initially came
predominantly in the form of defensive arms — most famously in weapons like
modern guided anti-tank munitions in the early part of the year — the latest
phase has seen a sudden acceleration in the provision of weapons well suited to
the offence as well. Several nations are now providing main battle tanks,
“longer range weapons” are now being sent, and the giving of fighter jets is
discussed daily and seems all but certain."
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