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Ex Libris's avatar

I have had a brief look at the Ukrainian idea of neutrality, but I can't see the Russians agreeing to it if their plan is to take Ukraine again. I shall focus on that issue tomorrow with the pros, cons. and the reality of it.

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Yesterday I was angry. Today I find I'm just incredibly sad. Less than 48 hours ago the entire world heard and saw a violent moment. Then, it's as if the collective world breathed a silent relief, relief at there being something other than the atrocity in Ukraine to complain about. Yet we've been witnessing worse violence and atrocity for over a month now, and anger seems to have subsided. I don't understand that! Then comes along Turkey, and people think, "well, Turkey has it in hand now." NO, they don't! This war in the Ukraine is like a cancer, slowly eating away. You fight cancer with all your weapons. Even when it shows signs of stalling, you don't let up, you continue to attack until you hopefully wipe it out. It's a malignant cancer growing in Ukraine, now is not the time to sit back, become complacent or apathetic. Nato and the West keep throwing minimal weapons at it in the hope that it will be enough, and so they can pat themselves on the back and say, well we tried our best, gave it all we could. NO, they haven't. I've grown so tired of words and passive-aggressive actions that amount to nothing. So much posturing, not enough doing. Since they all failed to prevent it, then it's far past time for them to end it! I don't know the answer, but what I do know is that this is not the time to push back from the table with a satisfied smugness. Why wait for it to come to you to end it, go to it and end it. Stop drawing a line in the sand, because he IS going to cross every single one of them. They've given him far too much violent power because they refuse to take it from him. Ukraine is experiencing the results of that violent power, we see it and we can hear it. The violent slap being dealt to the Ukraine should take our breath away for more angrily than a silly split second of immaturity. That it's not, saddens me. @HM - my sincere apologies if I've gone too far. Just had a need to vent over the idiocy I'm seeing.

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