Kherson
People say that in the past, powerful nations—as the holders of hegemony—were able to keep international interaction orderly. But these days, powerful nations cannot always regulate the behavior of weak nations.
Goenawan Mohamad
November 21, 2022
IN damp early winter, 30,000 Russian soldiers crossed the River Dnipro. They were the contingent pulled out of the city of Kherson—marking defeat for a superpower that has a standing army of a million soldiers, in a confrontation with a country that usually ‘doesn’t matter’.
Sometimes, history moves fast.
In early March 2022, the Russian army invaded Kherson, a city in eastern Ukraine. In early October, from h
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