The Ukrainian invasion continues, as NATO steps up their defence lines, Russia keeps insisting that it is a special military operation, while Zelenskyy has addressed most of the democratic world for help, but we sit here and watch Ukrainians suffer and die. In some ways it is like a strange reality show where some players chip in when they want to, while reporters and the media record the images and tales. None of us want to be in this ‘reality show’ and many people who aren’t near the action can, and do ignore it even if it isn’t morally right, it is their choice.
"We have a moral obligation and duty to help Ukraine, and we simply are not doing all that we can." The truest words describing the situation I've read yet, EL. Thank you for doing what you can to present the information in as straightforward a manner as possible.
Your words, 'many people who aren't near the action can, and do ignore it even if it isn't morally right,' are so true and believe this applies to myself and many Australians. 'The reality show' could be coming closer though with China settling in the Samoan Islands.
Like you EL, I saw a young boy being bullied and ran over to sort it out, by the time I got there a shopkeeper had given the two largest a clip to the ear and told them he’d tell their mum! That would have been, in those days, the ultimate threat.
Nowadays I would not be so quick (due to age) but also the fact that you don’t know if they have weapons either.
I wish we could dispense with Mr Putin in the same way, but I fear not, and if we did, who would we get in his place, someone’s else with a god complex and little man syndrome?
"We have a moral obligation and duty to help Ukraine, and we simply are not doing all that we can." The truest words describing the situation I've read yet, EL. Thank you for doing what you can to present the information in as straightforward a manner as possible.
Your words, 'many people who aren't near the action can, and do ignore it even if it isn't morally right,' are so true and believe this applies to myself and many Australians. 'The reality show' could be coming closer though with China settling in the Samoan Islands.
A simply brilliant and heartfelt bulletin and summation, EL. Thank you. TC
Like you EL, I saw a young boy being bullied and ran over to sort it out, by the time I got there a shopkeeper had given the two largest a clip to the ear and told them he’d tell their mum! That would have been, in those days, the ultimate threat.
Nowadays I would not be so quick (due to age) but also the fact that you don’t know if they have weapons either.
I wish we could dispense with Mr Putin in the same way, but I fear not, and if we did, who would we get in his place, someone’s else with a god complex and little man syndrome?