War. Who knew?5 Apr 2022 10:32
This is the reality of war, the reality of badly trained troops who through anger, fear, and no small measure of brainwashing act in a way that is abhorrent. The reality of burned and dismembered bodies, of millions of innocent people displaced, denuded of everyone and everything that they have known and loved. But why is this so terrible now? Why do some seem so unable to fathom it's horror? Maybe because they are white faces, turned down in the dirt, maybe it's because they are so local to us, Europeans after all (though some would disagree that they are). Maybe God forbid, because it's having an effect on a stock price, I don't know. What I do know is that this war is probably no different to those in Syria, Vietnam, The Falkland Islands, and Iraq (twice), those in Africa as well as many others. War is what happens when normal people are lead by madmen, men drunk on power, men full of hate, men who are deficient as human beings.
Things seemed to be settling down, at least to me as a bystander they did, discussions regarding a cease fire, moving slowly but inexorably to a conclusion. But now what have we? We have a glory boy, the man child johnson, who sees himself as some latter-day Churchill, when in fact he is far more similar to Billy Bunter. A man who's version of honesty is spinning any set of words to appease or agree with the listener. A man whose definition of loyalty is however long it takes to get disrobed and "friendly" with a woman. He has as much a sense of duty as a spoilt well fed cat on a warn day. But now, he could be in the limelight, almost a 'King maker', the sinking of all thoughts of Partygate, the many tens of thousands of excess deaths caused by his mishandling of the Covid scourge, the complete disaster of the economy or, yes let's hear it, the brexit realities coming home to roost. So he offers tanks, offensive weapons to a Zelenskyy who in many ways quite rightly wants his country back and also no small measure of revenge, has he not a right to that? But this will undoubtedly prolong the war and the killing on all sides, russia can happily lob munitions at Ukraine from well inside russian borders, killing yet more civilians and turning yet more of the Ukraine into dust. put1n, the cause of this, is 69 he will possibly live another ten years, will he be in power for that time? Will this disaster lead to internal regime change? Again I don't know, but the next leader of russia will be very different, he'll have no mad axe to grind, he will I hope see the errors in his predecessors actions and their negative effects on the russian peoples. What is needed at this time is cool heads, reasoned minds to whom every life is as critical and valuable to them as if it were their son, daughter or spouse. Minds that will look past the immediate angst to the brighter future. Not a guffawing eton boy who does not even recognise his offspring.
GLASH.
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