Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world – but not the way he wanted
Because of his miscalculations, there’s a new iron curtain at the Russian leader’s door – writes Allan Little …
So instead of taking the cities and towns, the Serbs laid siege to them – surrounding them, bombarding them, cutting off water, gas and electricity. It is already happening in Mariupol. Besiege a city and cut off its water supply, and within 24 hours, every toilet is a public health hazard. Citizens have to go out into the streets to find water standpipes and fill up receptacles just to flush their loos. Cut off the electricity and you freeze in your own home. Soon the food runs out. Is that what the Russians intend for Mariupol, for Kharkiv, for Kyiv? To starve them into submission?
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