on Ukraine

it's no sports event
people's lives are in danger
fruit has to ripen

~

n.b. The Ukraine top security official, Oleksiy Danilov, has been trying to explain to news media, that the counter-offensive against Russia will take time to have a significant impact. He used a typically poetic metaphor about fruit. You can only admire the hope expressed is such language.

CLP 13/07/2023