I have not written for a little while, mainly because I just repeat my deep seated disgust with just about everything. There are good things happening, stories that inspire or revive your faith in human nature but day after day, it seems to be doom and gloom. Like most of us, I have no answers only questions and opinions, they go unheard, unanswered and ignored. I suspect most of us live with a feeling of impending crisis, to add to the many we have already lived through. Okay in reality does it really affect me, no, does it impact my life, to a degree but certainly not to the extent that many are impacted! It is an oblivious and naive thing to write but one wonders why it is so difficult to co-exist in peace. Think how much less effort it takes to try and get on.
Take Putin for example, we know his motives (well kind of), we understand his deep resentment over the independence of nations he believes should still be part of Russia. We get that he has huge military resources (however badly run they might be), that he is a natural bully, a dictator but (and I say this with my tongue firmly in my cheek) how much easier would it have been if he had just tried to be friends with both Ukraine and the rest of the West? Putting all the death and atrocities, the Ukrainian exodus, the damage to their country to one side, his own country would not be suffering the punishment the West is imposing (not enough)? Why cause such horror when a friendly word a conciliatory gesture could have made Ukraine, if not allied then at least a good neighbour. Obviously that ship sailed a long time ago once he invaded the Crimea and there was no rolling back. Why is he so afraid of NATO? It isn’t as though they are going to attack him, quite the reverse the West want to operate in the Russian market it is a huge country and there is money to be made. It is more than sad, more than mad, more than horrific, more than a waste, more than senseless and is so often the case it hinged on the whim of one man and it has changed Europe forever!
Stay well
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