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On Ukraine
What now for Ukraine?Two years backwards and forwardsChess pieces removed ~ n.b. Politics or strategy? The West has other fish to fry, it seems. The masters of war play on, as the planet perspires. CLP 09/02/2024 →
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On Ukraine
British army mustquadruple in size to repelRussia military……say Chiefs.~n.b. That won’t be happening without immigration, or conscription, or a very old army when current demographics are looked at in detail. CLP 02/02/2024 →
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On Ukraine
disputatious headsfractionalise the nationtroops die in trenches – n.b. It is reported that the President and the nation’s top General are at odds about the effectiveness of Ukraine’s armed forces. This is not chess, there is an armed aggressor. Every day the adult children of Ukrainians and Russians are dying in mud,, in what is →
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on Ukraine
Here is another link, this time to an article in The Guardian about contemporary poetry writing in Ukraine. With so much going wrong elsewhere, it is easy to forget, Ukraine is still besieged, Moscow still presses on with its invasion plans. Meanwhile, in Moscow, a poet is gaoled for five years for reciting a poem →
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on peace
I received a link to an impassioned video plea for ceasefire in poetic form. Should an agency cleaner in the basement… By Steve Pottinger. Keep talking about Gaza, keep demanding a ceasefire. Invoke the name of the young conscientious objector Tal Mitnick, imprisoned for 30 days for refusing to believe that “more violence will bring →
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unbearable
in measured toneswith reasonable languagethese two men adopt a stolid stanceexplain nothing will deflecteach from their stated purposeirrespective of distractionsthe cries of infants orphanedthe tears of grieving mothersthe pleas of widowsanger of widowersvengeful vows from sons and daughterswho will ensure peace will not cometo Palestine or Ukrainefor generations ~ n.b. Whether a daily press briefing →
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