Two Years After the Start of the SMO, the West is Totally Paralyzed
February 24, 2022 was the day that changed 21st century geopolitics forever, Pepe Escobar writes.
February 24, 2022 was the day that changed 21st century geopolitics forever, Pepe Escobar writes.
Exactly two years ago this Saturday, on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced the launching – and described the objectives – of a Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine. That was the inevitable follow-up to what happened three days before, on February 21 – exactly 8 years after Maidan 2014 in Kiev – when Putin officially recognized the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
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