Geographical orientation / eastern Russia

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While driving a neighborhood bus, I carefully observed the location of the bus driver who had no power and whose identity was exposed. Now I'm going to write about Russian President Putin. But the neighborhood bus driver is in perfect vertical symmetry with President Putin. It is simply the humble station of the East. I wish I had known that bus drivers were treated so badly in Korea. I knew that a healthy worker would be treated with innocence. However, Korean society had not thought that there were many remnants of vertical Oriental society.

 

When the Soviet Union was separated, NATO, along with the Warsaw Pact, should have been disbanded. Or, jokingly speaking, we should have turned NATO into the character of the Earth Defense Force or the Kantapiya Defense Force and allowed Russia to join NATO. The reason why it reached this point today (Russia's invasion of Ukraine) is largely because it tied the West to Russia in a symmetrical relationship. Geographically and culturally, Russia has a strong desire for vertical status because it is close to Eastern society, and President Putin is at the peak of that desire.

 

I wrote in a lengthy response [the New York Times] published, along with a drawing by Macieck Albrechr, on October 28, 1996, “probide insights into internal problems and external intentions, the latter often an early warning of aggression.”

 

- [Why Geography Matters] by Harm de Blij -

Now Ukraine is waging a war on behalf of the West in a war that started with geographical and cultural relativity. The nature of this war has become a war between a great power controlled by an elderly Eastern monarch and a small and medium-sized country led by a Western youth leader.

 

I have never had the idea that dictatorship is unconditionally bad. Perhaps if the Western equal society was homogeneously located in the consciousness of leaders and people, as in the example of Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, educated in the UK, there would have been many advantages such as policy consistency. I expected that from Putin in the early days, and I don't think Putin in the early days made such a mistake. However, historically and geographically, I think it has been difficult for Russia to break away from the tradition of oriental vertical society.

 

Ukrainian President Zelensky, who has outstanding leadership, asked South Korea to provide support for anti-tank missiles and other offensive weapons, while Russia previously asked North Korea to provide missile support. I think it is right for both South Korea and North Korea to provide passive support, such as humanitarian aid. South Korea and North Korea should not become proxy wars in the cutting edge of the Cold War. However, I think more generous support is needed for the right of Ukrainian refugees to survive.

 

As a former intelligence officer, President Putin made poor judgments. It did not predict the sacrifice of Russia, as well as Ukraine. As an oriental monarch's pride, it became a situation where he could not step down without income and justification. Russia must end the war as soon as possible. And I expect that Russia will have great political and cultural reforms in the future. Eastern vertical inequality society has stalled Japan's development, and so will China. Korea also has many worries. Russia should not resemble the bad side of the East.