"You’re occupiers. You are fascists. Why the fuck did you come here with your guns?" Ukrainian woman confronting Russian soldiers in Henichesk, in southern Ukraine. "Take these seeds and put them in your pocket so, at least, sunflowers will grow on your graves." (Translation by Alex Abramovich, London Review of Books)
Bells ring silently the evening rolls in its void — Paul Celan
The post has reminded me that we [the human kind] are delivered to this world by women.
Every human being that has ever lived in this world, arrived as a passenger of a woman.
Most of the women I know that are mothers are creatures of great strength and courage, like the woman shown in this video report.
Jan, thanks for the reminder.
And thx for yr comment. If women ran the world, it wldnt be perfect, but we’d all be better off.
It is said that the original Vlad lined the roads to his country with corpses on crosses. To indicate to the Ottoman armies their fate should they proceed. Putin is telling NATO the same. Difficult to grasp the mentality that would engage policies of such brutality.