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on Ukraine
this runs far deeperdestruction of a nationMoscow’s callous goal ~ n.b. Having failed with invasion, Moscow’s aim seems to be to turn Ukraine to ruins. Blowing up the Nova Kakhovka dam is just another day at the office for the little man in The Kremlin. How will this be ended? CLP 07/06/2023 →
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6th June
Veterans gather at City HallRemembering the storiesTold by their seniors of The BeachesJuno, Sword, GoldOf Canadian cousins with bicyclesAnd American men who washed ashoreTheir blood soaking through the sandOn Utah and OmahaDecades have passed since D-DayNever again, Europe swore.Above, the lifeless flagUkraine’s Yellow and Blue ~ CLP 06/06/2023 →
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on Ukraine
innocents murderedbecomes standard war practisedeath of innocence ~ n.b. Has the war now reached Moscow, from whence it came? CLP 31/05/2023 →
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on Ukraine
this is the futureunmanned aerial vehicleswar without soldiers ~ n.b. Eventually, no human risk to intervention, weapons fight weapons, just civilian casualties. Who will prevail? The belligerent with most money. Something not previously the case, as the wealthy nations don’t like to see too many of their poorer sons sacrificed. See Vietnam, Afghanistan, Suez, Iraq, →
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on Ukraine
‘Bakhmut is Gone’ nowits name remains on a mapshells have left mere shells ~ n.b. Today the New York Times shows film taken from a drone of the broken city. Three people huddled by a wall, checking whether it is safe to creep around the corner of a block, on their journey to god knows →
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on Ukraine
talk of days changesfour hundred and more turns tocounting passing years ~ n.b. We are becoming used to news of terror, criminality, invasion, cruelty. Attention! Attention! Attention! Daily attacks on Ukraine’s people continue. CLP 19/05/2023 →
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on Ukraine
“…if real peace talks start”the newspaper suggestedwhat a bloody game ~ CLP 12/05/2023 →
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on Ukraine
We wait for the cuckoosTheir calls prompting dreams of summerYou wait for the cuckoos to leaveTheir absence prompting dreams of peace ~ CLP 10/05/2023 →
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on Ukraine
one hundred years onnames carved into monumentsparents must explain ~ n.b. One day this horror too will be history. The battle then becomes preventing another. CLP 04/05/2023 →
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on Moscow
allegations thrownchild killer fears for his lifethreatens more killings ~ n.b. Moscow is run by a mass murderer, who throws a squinny when he claims, without independent verification, that drones were sent to Russia assassinate him. No comment about the hundreds of thousands of lives lost as a result of his orders. No words can →
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