Sun Tzu is the author of The Art of War, a military strategy that has affected Western, East Asian philosophy and war thinking. 

Between 1989 and 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the Berlin Wall to be pulled down, Germany to be reunited and all the “captive nations” of Eastern Europe to move towards freedom and democracy.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev allowed the Empire to dissolve itself into 15 independent nations. Communism was allowed to expire as the ruling ideology of Russia, where Leninism and Bolshevism first took root in 1917. This is Putin's version of revenge and he may not care if he rules over ashes.

In 1999 three former Warsaw Pact nations, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland were brought into #NATO. Then in 2004, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, and Bulgaria were admitted into NATO. 

Then, in 2008, the Bucharest declaration put Georgia and Ukraine, both bordering on Russia, on a path to NATO membership.

Russia's Lavrov dismisses Kyiv's proposal to stage peace talks in Mariupol http://reut.rs/3ka8xQy

Russian airplanes have now struck 87 different military installations while rockets and artillery rained down on Ukrainian positions, destroying the S-300 missile, a Tochka U short-range ballistic missile, BUK-M1, and Osa-AKM missile systems.

Russia bombs east as the US promises new weapons

https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-news-live-russia-effectively-071019975.h…

Russia's 'victory' in Mariupol turns the city's dreams to rubble http://reut.rs/3keanje

Meanwhile..

• Germany vows to send heavy weapons for the first time

• More than 8 million expected to flee Ukraine this year, UN says

• Russia is effectively at war with Nato, Lavrov says as he calls western weapons ‘legitimate targets’

• ‘Nuclear threat should not be underestimated, warns Russia

• Ukraine accuses Russia of 'scaremongering'

• Russia hits faraway targets in Ukraine

• The UK estimates 15,000 Russian troops were killed in Ukraine

Russia pounds eastern Ukraine as West promises Kyiv new arms

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that help was on the way, as he convened a meeting of officials from around 40 countries at the United States’ Ramstein Air Base in Germany to pledge more weapons

Associated Press https://www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-pounds-eastern-ukraine-as-west…

A Moscow court fined Wikipedia owner Wikimedia Foundation for the first time for not deleting articles that Russia says contain inaccurate information about what it calls its special military operation in Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported https://reut.rs/38ok5wG

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