Good morning and how are you feeling today? Wendy has told me, the news is making her too anxious and she can’t watch anymore! Everyone I have spoken to discusses the main news of the moment and shrugs in resignation at the futility and helplessness of feeling powerless! Our mental well being has been severely tested in the last 4 or 5 years and if you thought 2022 was going to see at least some improvement that wish has been blown away, like candy floss in the wind! We have to stay strong but even for the most resilient of us that is no easy task? If your mental health is already shaky or fragile your equilibrium is under huge pressure. We maybe thousands of miles away from the action but none of us feel safe or comfortable and it is so easy to imagine the threat coming closer to home or a nuclear attack.
I have lived for almost 70 years and watched hundreds of conflicts and wars. None of them has had any direct impact on me and mine, other than an economic one and that is nothing compared to the hell the people directly involved and specifically the civilian populations suffer. These tragedies never end, the conflicts have long lasting repercussions and some never end in any true sense. We are still experiencing the fallout from the end of WW2 as the Russian madman laments the dissolution of the Soviet block and tries to re-establish Russia’s hold over those former states.
It seems we have learnt nothing from history, littered as it is with the strong having dominated the weak until more enlightened attitudes prevail. Nothing changes, peace is ephemeral and aggression and killing still dictates one countries aggression towards another. We crave peace and yet there are always men (and it’s always men) whose megalomaniac ambition dissolves that peace in a heartbeat. The people do usually prevail but the price paid is always to high and the fallout much too big!
I have to repeat, with a heavy heart and a desperate wish for no more loss of life that the only way to stop Putin is to match his aggression with ours. It’s not what we want but he shows no sign of adhering to any words or diplomatic effort, he only understands violence and therefore must be like all bullies given a bloody nose! I understand the horror of nuclear threat that might trigger but I see little alternative for any other solution.
Even the sanctions and other economic moves are not happening quickly enough. It is simple seize everything Russian and if happens to affect innocent Russians then blame Putin after all he started it. I wish no hardship on anyone but for the greater good, take it all?
I apologise for being so downbeat and I genuinely hope that this madness can be resolved peacefully and as soon as possible. We must do everything we can to stay strong and help those who need it. I’ve never understood why it is so easy to start destruction and death when it is so much easier for everyone including the aggressor to live in peace. What actual good will it do for Putin to “rule” Ukraine? He will be in a country that hates him and will continue to resist forever. It’s not like the NATO countries or the EU want to attack him. Indeed all we want to do is trade with them and be friends with his people.
Stay well
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