Autumn banging at the door
Years start in autumn. Political years, bringing their new political decisions and their usually bad consequences, unintended ones included. Northern hemisphere autumn, to be precise, like the racist who doesn’t care much about the other hemisphere that I am. Racist is the perfect shortcut for everything we are or may be disliked for. Not that I care.
This autumn starts promising. With a war. Which, according to the attacking party, is not a war and not even a special military operation. I can understand when one is careful not to infringe on copyrights, but I doubt this was the reason why the fresh war was labeled ‘less than a smo’. Modern wars should be perceived as mundane events, business as usual, pass the sugar, honey !
Funny thing… the other side thinks the same. In fact, they don’t even consider this war is worth fighting for… or in… or… I give up. But they won’t, they don’t capitulate, no, no. It’s a war, but we don’t call it war, we don’t fight in it, but we don’t desist either, go figure. I wonder if this war isn’t in fact a sort of gender (mis)appropriation like issue. Seems so hard to define you’d think you have to answer the mind numbing question ‘what is a woman ?’.
Azerbaijan vs Armenia. Bets are on the first A. Again. I don’t pretend I understand all that is happening there. Even if I could, it seems useless, too much effort then, a few years from now, another geopolitical twist will send me back to school.
That being said, only one thing truly makes sense right away. This is a war for war’s sake. Some forked tail stirred an easily to be stirred regional pot hoping that, maybe, as a consequence, two big brothers, Russia and Turkey, watching over the two protagonists, will finally start a bitter feud which could prevent the expected (and dreaded) invitation for Turkey to join next year a certain annoying brotherhood.
A LGBTQ+ gender like confusion around a war which is not a war was manufactured so a BRICS11+ haze of uncertainties lingers when next year decision is due. Not-wars tend to become long wars. Within or outside the military theater of operations.
Oh, wait, aren’t we already exactly in that type of scenario ? Indeed. Proof that I might be right about this new twist.
And autumn is just beginning.
EDIT (20.09.2023): Boy, I was spectacularly wrong ! The non-combat side, for all intents and purposes, capitulated, abandoning the contested province to its fate. Which triggered an annoying curiosity from my part… so, it is still a working possibility to capitulate ? Asking for an Ukrainian friend.