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Hi, this week I was going to post about something else, but everything over the weekend made it impossible for me to write about anything, or really think much apart from what’s going on in the news with Ukraine.
I am far from educated on the topic – I wasn’t going to post at all, but I have to admit it was disconcerting to see on social media so little about this. But then again maybe people are like me…they aren’t educated and are nervous to post and so don’t say anything at all. So I decided just to write a few sentences about what I believe. Which is: that it’s a tragedy when so much destruction is caused by the egos and vanity of a few old men (this description could apply to so many things, no?)…when ordinary people just want to live their lives in peace. I am thinking of any readers impacted by this, for those fearful for themselves and their loved ones.
PS: I watched this speech by Martin Kimani, Kenya’s envoy to the UN, live yesterday and it stuck in my head.
6 Comments
Sue Aberbach
February 22, 2022 at 9:25 amThank you for sharing this powerful and relevant speech.
VS
February 22, 2022 at 5:14 pmThank you for sharing your thoughts and so clearly articulating what makes it hard for some of us to talk about this. I echo your sentiments and wish/hope this ends with minimal upheaval and loss of life for all involved.
Julie W.
February 22, 2022 at 7:21 pmThanks for sharing your thoughts about this. Really echoes my sentiment (really adding to my anxiety on top of all my COVID-related anxiety). It’s truly unbelievable how a few egotistical old men can destroy so many lives, time and time again.
Anonymous
February 23, 2022 at 3:02 pmThat’s my countryman! *i hold dual Kenyan-US citizenship. Every last word he says is so true.
Lise
February 24, 2022 at 6:35 pmWe were sitting in Kiev two years ago eating Michelin starred dinners and falling in love with Richard the Lionheart’s castle. Now I’m watching the parks we walked through being shelled. It’s shocking. I’m struck by how many people describe the Ukraine as a third world country, a hell hole, just another former Soviet-era country and seem nonplussed by the invasion as though it was somehow deserved. Kiev and most of the major cities of the Ukraine are incredibly well educated (half of my kid’s chess teammates come from Ukrainian heritage), have a strong identity as native Ukrainians, and proudly displayed the military tanks they used against Russia underneath a communist era statue. Russian was still the standard language in schools until the protests in 2014 and Russian and Ukrainian are spoken interchangeably in the city, but if you ask someone in Kiev where their allegiance is, it’s firmly with the Ukraine. Same goes in Odessa and every other major city I’ve been too. If this was happening in France or in a country many Americans had visited/related to we’d have a very different view of this.
Kat
February 24, 2022 at 8:17 pmI’m saddened by all of this and hope that out of all of this Americans might have a better understanding and sympathy of Ukraine and the incredible bravery of its citizens as well as ordinary Russian citizens who are bravely protesting against the war..