Whilst Remarks of the Likes of (Aotearoa-New Zealand's) R(adio) N(ew) Z(ealand) National's Economics Commentator Patrick Smellie A Few Weeks Ago That Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky (the Now Eminently-Deserving - Let's Concede That for Starters, So There's No Misunderstanding - 'Man of the Year' by Time Magazine)... "Is Presently in the Position of Humiliating (the Once Great Nation of) Russia...and Long May That Continue": Just Confirms Yet Again How the Mainstream Western Media's Present 'Zero Sum Game' Outcome for Ukraine - Ironically the VERY SAME 'Zero Sum' Approach of Putin But in Reverse - Is On an Emotional Level Highly Satisfying, Let's be Brutally Honest, But is Irrational in the Extreme, & Moreover Could Oh So Easily Lead to WW111 and the End of Life As We Know It Upon Planet Earth...

Surely the Suggestion of Professor Shabear (sp?) Ashkaf - Co-Author with Noam Chomsky of an Important Article/Tome Upon the War in Ukraine - That Allowing Secessionist Regions of Ukraine (like the Crimea) to Secede From Ukraine (and Russia, FOR THAT MATTER)...Could Solve the Highly-Fraught Dilemma Which is How to Bring Peace to That Deeply Troubled Region...Whilst Leaving BOTH SIDES (I.e. Russia and Ukraine) Without Egg Upon Their Respective Faces/Utter Humiliation & Shame...

But when has our modern world and its various national 'actors' last gone for a win-win solution in global and regional affairs?

Though surely thus evading a potential WW111 is worth examining every feasible avenue to achieve.

Meanwhile Over in Russia Disaffection With Putin & His Unholy War Against the People of Ukraine Seems to be Likewise Growing Apace...

Though once again there's little chance of that disaffection boiling over into an (imminent) insurrection...

Yet Incredibly - And I'm Quite Happy in This/These Instance/s to be Proven Wrong - the Chinese Communist/Iranian Islamist Authorities HAVE BOTH PAID ATTENTION & RESPONDED In Seeming Appropriate Fashion - At Least Initially, to All Appearances...

But as is always the case in such places, there'll still be hell to pay for the 'perpetrators' later on! 

Belatedly Celebrating the People(s) Rising Up...in the 'People's Republic' (of China) and in the Islamic Republic of Iran: (As the Old Wag Once Said) "The People Have Spoken!"...But Regrettably That Don't Mean Those In Charge Will Pay Any Attention or Give a Rat's Razoo....