Inertial Ukraine
Win the war, go extinct
Inertia comes from the Latin word, iners, meaning idle, sluggish.We all know that water particles sticking to the bicycle tire fly off tangentially whenever a cyclist negotiates a tight curve that creates a force acting away from the center of the curve. It’s called inertia of direction and can cause bloody accidents, depending on your sense of balance. Just as potentially deadly is inertia of motion, when a force does not act on an object and continues to move at the same speed. When your bicycle comes to a sudden stop, for example, you fly over the handle bars.
This is all apropos of Valeriy Pekar’s article, titled “Winning the War, Losing the Peace: Inertial Scenarios,” appearing on Ukrainska Pravda’s forum the other day.
I include the key 10 points, leaving out the the inertial scenarios blah blah, which Ukraine’s cheerleaders abroad are leery of discussing, at least pubicly, so far.
Let’s take a look at the state of Ukraine affairs immediately f…
