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on Ukraine
come gather round yousons of Russia enrich soilwho don’t understand? ~ n.b. It is reported in the NY Times that Russian military losses are in excess of 200,000, not counting the captured. That land must hold a lot of value to Moscow if it is happy to spread so much blood and bone. CLP 03/02/2023 →
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on Ukraine
caterpillar tracksloaded onto railway trucksshareholders cash in ~ n.b. As we move closer to open conflict between Russia and “The West” I attended a party recently at which there was open talk about moving savings into arms manufacturing shares and disappointment expressed at missing out on buying stock in an American armament corporation. Ironically, it →
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on history
immediatelyall dreams dissolved, fear took gripeach day feels endless ~ n.b. Faith in The Great Healer crumbles, as Time slows and every single second chews up and spits out another a piece of the soul, in slow motion. Ever done something you wish you had not? CLP 17/01/2023 →
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on USA
let’s go shopping, dearWalmart? have you got the list?firearms and bullets ~ n.b. Mass shooting follows mass shooting. In between times, individuals in their homes, or out on the streets, are relentlessly slaughtered day after day. The land of the fearful. Support www.momsdemandaction.org CLP 23/11/2022 →
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on Ukraine
evacuate callcruel deceit of remainingvictims who’ll be blamed ~ n.b. A call to Moscow to help evacuate Donbas as Ukraine’s army advances, means the area will only be lived in by people who wanted to stay in their homes, but they risk being called Ukrainian patriots and therefore “enemy” to the recently retreated occupiers. Victim →
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on Ukraine
sat in their silosweapons of horrific strengthattention focused ~ n.b. Whatever my thoughts on this, writing them would only trivialise the seriousness of the current situation humanity now faces. →
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on Ukraine
ask “What was it for?””We are liberating landwithout people on…” ~ n.b. The first quoted line, reported in The Guardian in the UK, are words of a citizen of a town liberated from the retreating invaders. The second, (same source), from a Ukrainian soldier making his way through the ghost towns of the temporarily, but →
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on Ukraine
they still have enoughcowards to push the buttonsheroes would refuse ~ n.b. Resistance to conscription in Russia is an act of great courage. For Russians facing the press gang, “Do you have a plan? Run; Hide; Fight,” Which is what public notices in US railway stations advise in case an act of domestic terrorism develops →
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on Ukraine
nuclear assault?how might Pravda report it?obliteration ~ n.b. It is said that Russian protests against the war have begun in several town. Putin mobilising 300,000 more troops. Russians considering how to avoid being called up. Putin’s Vietnam. CLP 21/09/2022 →
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