Semudzidzi we geographer akadzidza uye akadzidzisa nezve kurwisana kwemadzinza pasi rose, uye semugari weU.S. midzi yemhuri muEast-Central Europe, ndagara ndichiverenga nyaya dzinotaurwa mumamepu.
Aya mamepu maviri anoratidza kuti Putin akazvikanganisa sei, uye akaverengera mukutanga hondo yake neUkraine. Putin anoti zviviri zvezvinangwa zvake zvehondo ndezve "denazification" yeUkraine, uye kuchengetedzwa kwevanhu vanotaura chiRussia kubva kure-kurudyi vekuUkraine ultranationalists.
Kufanana neakawanda "Manyepo Makuru," pane kernel yechokwadi kuseri kwezvinotaurwa. Mushure mekuvandudzwa kweMaidan 2014, ndakasimudza maalarm pamusoro pesimba refascist muhurumende itsva yeUkraine, ndichiti "muvengi wemuvengi wako haasi shamwari yako nguva dzose. "
Ndakakatyamadzwa kuti mapoka ari kure-kurudyi okuUkraine euultranationalist (akadai saSvoboda naPravy Sektor), vanofunga kuti divi risiri iro rakakunda Hondo Yenyika II, vakapa varwi vomumugwagwa vanomukira vaitamba zviratidzo zve“simba jena”. Vateveri vavo vakadzora mitauro miviri, vakavaka zviyeuchidzo zvakawanda kune matsotsi ehondo efascist, uye vakabatana neNational Guard's Azov Battalion kurwisa maRussia anoparadzana nevanopikisa.
Putin akaratidzira maFascist ekuUkraine sekutyisidzira kune vanhu vanotaura chiRussian kumabvazuva nekumaodzanyemba (inoratidzwa mutsvuku pamepu yekutanga), uye akabatanidza Crimea uye vakapakata zvombo zvekuRussia vanoparadzanisa munharaunda iri kure-kumabvazuva kweDonbass. Vatsigiri verudzi rweUkraine vakasimba kwazvo munharaunda inotaura ChiUkraine iri kure-kumadokero yakatenderedza Lviv (inoratidzwa muyero), yaive chikamu chehondo dzePoland. VaUkraine vakawanda vari munharaunda yepakati vanotaura musanganiswa wechiUkraine nechiRussia (unoratidzwa muorenji).
Musarudzo dzemutungamiri weUkraine dzakapfuura, mepu yesarudzo yaizonyatsoenderana nemepu yemutauro. Vezvematongerwo enyika vePro-Russia vaizokunda dunhu dzvuku, veUkraine nyika vaizokunda dunhu reyero, uye vaizopatsanura mutsauko mudunhu remaranjisi. (Mapato ari kure-kurudyi kumativi ose akanga asingawani mavhoti akawanda.) Pandakadzidzisa zvidzidzo pamusoro pejogirafi yeEast-Central Europe, ratidza mamepu aya kuratidza mucherechedzo wemarudzi uye miganhu yenyika yakasara pane zvematongerwo enyika zvemazuva ano.
Asi musarudzo dza2019, chimwe chinhu chakasiyana chakaitika, chinoratidzwa pamepu yepazasi. Vanetswa nevezvematongerwo enyika vane huwori vemarudzi ese ari maviri, vavhoti vakasarudza zvakakura mumiriri wechiJudha anotaura chiRussia Volodymyr Zelensky semutungamiri wenyika, mukutsiura kune vese vekuUkraine neRussia vane ultranationalists. Zelensky chaizvoizvo akaita zviri nani munharaunda inotaura chiRussia (murima rakasvibirira), uye muvengi wake akakunda chete munharaunda yeLviv (muchiedza cheorenji).
Putin angade kutora Kyiv kuti abvise Zelensky, uye kumutsiva nemutungamiri wezvipopi anoteerera weUkraine yese. Zvingangodaro, pakupedzisira aizoda kuparadzanisa Ukraine, uye kugadzira nzvimbo yekumabvazuva yeRussia inotaura "Novorossiya" (munzvimbo tsvuku), achibatanidza Donbass kuCrimea uye pro-Russian Transnistria enclave muMoldova. Izvozvo zvaizosiya rump Ukraine kumadokero uye nechepakati (yero uye orenji) kumatunhu.
Asi hechino chinhu: Putin angaite sei kuti vatauri veRussia vabatsire kupidigura mutungamiri wavakavhotera muhuwandu hukuru kupfuura zvakaitwa nevatauri veUkraine, pamusoro pemumiriri anotsigirwa nevavhoti munharaunda yeUkraine yenyika? Izvi zvinoita sei senzira yekurwisa maNazi? Zvichida nekuti Zelensky haanyatso kutamba basa re bogeyman, Putin anofanira kumubvisa.
Kuratidzira kwekurwisa hondo muRussia kunoshamisa uye kusati kwamboitika, asi chinonyanya kukosha kushaikwa kwerutsigiro rwehondo yaPutin kubva kune vatauri veRussia vekuUkraine, avo vaanonzi "kusunungura" kubva kumatsotsi efascist. Zvinocherechedzwa kuti kunyangwe Russian state TV haigone kugadzira chiitiko chevanhu vekuRussia vachigamuchira mauto, izvo zvaive nyore kuratidza muCrimea makore masere apfuura.
Iko kupindira kwaPutin kunogona kusimbisa chiporofita chake chekuzvizadzisa, nekusimudza mauto ari kure-kurudyi kumadokero kweUkraine, uye kugutsa vamwe vekuUkraine kuti vanofanirwa kubatana neNATO. Izvi zvinogona kunge zviri izvo chaizvo zvinodiwa naPutin, nekuti anogona kuramba achishandisa maNazi neNATO kutyisidzira vanhu veRussia kuti vatevedze kuda kwake. Sezvinongoita maRussia neUkraine ma ultranationalists anosimbisa meseji yeruvengo, hutsinye hwaPutin uye kuwedzera kweNATO kunodyisa kubva kune mumwe nemumwe mameseji esimba remauto.
Iyi nharaunda yeEastern Europe inoratidzwa nekushungurudzika kwenhoroondo kusati kwagadziriswa, kusanganisira kupinda kwemambo kwakapfuura, Holodomor yaStalin (Nzara Huru) ya1932-33 iyo yakauraya mamiriyoni 3.5 ehupenyu hweUkraine, uye hondo yaHitler ya1941-45 iyo yakauraya vanhu vanopfuura mamiriyoni makumi maviri nemashanu munyika yose. Soviet Union. Wese munhu anotya kunetsana pakati pemasimba ane zvombo zvenyukireya eRussia neUnited States, izvo zvingave zvisina kufarira munhu, kunyanya Ukraine.
Putin nemaoligarchs ake vanomhanyisa hupfumi hweRussia hunodedera, uye chinangwa chake chekutanga ndechekugara musimba. Kufanana nevatungamiriri vazhinji vekumadokero, anoona nzira inoenda ku xenophobia nehondo senzira yekudzora vanhu vake nekutya. Zvakadaro zvinoita sekunge iye zvino vese vekuRussia nevekuUkraine vari kutanga kurasikirwa nekutya kwavo, uye votanga kufunga zvekumira pahumambo.
Zoltán Grossman inhengo yeFaculty in Geography and Indigenous Studies paThe Evergreen State College muOlympia, Washington, achidzidzisa pamharadzano dzemarudzi, mauto, uye zviwanikwa. Webhusaiti yake iri pa https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan
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