I hear that Donald Trump has told the Ukrainian president to accept the Russians taking what they want from his country, or risk being annihilated by them.
Richard Steele
What an awful choice to have to make, to give up whatever your violent aggressor wants, and he will want heaps, or have him take the lot.
Either way you lose, so taking the lesser of those evils is the only way out. Or is it? Russia will still eventually want it all, whatever you decide now, so it again becomes an impossible situation to win from.
My question though, through all this, is, where are the European neighbours in all this bullying? From where I sit , albeit a fair way from the battle front, it seems as though the Russians won’t stop there. If they are allowed to get away with this one, where or when will they stop?
And surely with the combined resources of the European military might, virtually over the fence, could show the Russian bully a thing or two. I know they are already helping, but thus far that help hasn’t done much to slow the aggressor.
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Or is there more to this terrible war than anyone realises? I’m no student of history – do the Russians have a case, or is this just a continuation of the colonisation that’s been going on ever since man came down from the trees, and that’s has plagued weaker nations since time began?
And have we as people of the world learned nothing from the mistakes of the past? It would appear not.
Equally the great so-called peacemaker who claims to have ended 10 wars, is out of his depth on this one. He appears to be losing the peace in his own country, so why would anybody listen to him in any case?
If the Europeans cannot get together and sort out Putin, it seems as though the poor Ukrainian people are buggered. And that’s a tragedy.
I know the Donald has his supporters, millions of republicans think he is just the bees’ knees, but I just cannot see why, what planet are they all on?
I’m still convinced that we will see civil war in the great United States soon, and all his so called peace-making will be in vain, and rather than win the respect of the world, he will become an even bigger laughing stock.
I hope I’m wrong.
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