In 1812, another French leader got himself surprised by the endless vastness of the Russian plains.
Few people know that there were already three western leaders surprised by the endless vastness of the Russian plains:
1. Charles XII. of Sweden
2. Napoleon
3. A certain Austrian most Germans would not really like to be remembered of too often ...
But there is also an endless vastness of the Ukrainian plains.
I have been there 24 years ago, driving in tourist buses from the North of Romania ...
(the Monastery of Sucevita in the Bukovina, North of Romania)
over the border to Czernowitz/ Czernivzy -
inside the University of Czernowitz,
today in the South of Ukraine, this building once was the Seat of the Orthodox Metropolitan ...
then we were driving over country roads to ...
Lviv/ Lwow/ Lemberg and it looked like this for hours and hours driving through the country:
The city of Lviv looked old and beautiful, many people there were still talking Polish:
And now, when I read the newspapers of today and see the news on German TV, I am wondering who might have the next surprise in which plains, because it is now more than disturbing:
The biggest and largest movement of troops in Europe since WW II. No one can this call any more an usual military maneuver. During the last two weeks, there were troops from the far east of Siberia ordered to go to the West by trains from a distance of 9.000 kilometers!
Even Sweden is now fortifying its island Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Finland is preparing support for its traditional relatives in Estonia. Lithuania and Poland are delivering weapons to Ukraine. Everything seems to look like madness: Preparing for a war no one needs.
There are now so many troops on the border to Ukraine that at least 20.000 of them have to sleep in tents in a Russian Winter and the deepest temperatures are still to come.
I am wondering how long can you let sleep so many soldiers in tents without need? Is there "a point of no return" of amassing troops without using them?
Even the German generals seem to get now into a slow nervousness because no European nation has ever carried out such a concentration of troops on the borders to another state since 77 years.
I am beginning to have a very, very bad feeling for the coming weeks ... and I will not imagine how tanks in these fields would look like or how a battle in these beautiful old streets of Lviv or Kiev would look like ...
Anyway glad I’m not the only one having problems with it. Really thinking of leaving there; I do not like all those pop ups! I close the page and find there’s some porn/chat site running on another page behind it!
