"... and work again, but all I hear is artillery outside, and the thought of my immediate future is terrifying. I am wondering more whether I shall live, than if I will walk again."
Said Dima Zadoroznyi, 41, a painter and decorator, quoted in "War in Ukraine: Kharkiv’s hospitals reveal the hideous cost of Putin’s invasion/The brutality of the invasion is etched on the faces of victims in the city’s hospitals. They have lost limbs, eyes and hope, writes Anthony Loyd" (London Times).
If you go to that link, you'll see a horrific photograph of Yelena Bolyachenko, 55, a sales manager, who is quoted: "I crawled around unable to see, my head covered in blood and felt my face full of gaping holes. Eventually I found a towel and mopped away the blood hoping I’d be able to see. But I can’t. I’ve been completely blinded in one eye and can no longer see properly in the other. The doctors cannot tell me if I’ll ever get even 50 per cent of my sight back."
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Will social media and the deep government chattering classes now understand that there are real consequences in the real world?
For several years we've been living in an unserious era involving wanton risks and the destruction of others through selfish pouting about trivia. This attitude certainly dates back to the reaction to the Trump campaign in 2016 and the concurrent mainstreaming of wokeness.
Jan 6, the Mexico border, Afghanistan, and the Canadian Truckers were the canaries in the coal mine.
Well, once this unpleasantness is all over, Mr Zadoroznyi will have plenty of work to do in painting and decorating rebuilt houses in the New Ukraine.
But having been blinded, Ms Bolyachenko should probably consider a new career in international diplomacy.
For several years we've been living in an unserious era involving wanton risks and the destruction of others through selfish pouting about trivia.
it's Interesting; i haven't hear much at all about pronouns or HRT since this war started.
It's like; now that people have Real Problems to worry about; critical race theory and transphobia don't seem all that important
@Enigma
No. They're not playing with their lives, only yours. But they're very serious people. Don't you dare say they're not serious people. They talk about serious things with other serious people on twitter and hold up pieces of paper with messages on them and everything. Don't you dare accuse them of not being serious.
Serious. People.
War tends to focus the mind on what is important. Climate change, masks, and diversity initiatives lose prominence.
The democrats energy policies sponsor these atrocities. What hypocrites.
Our "noble" leaders cut off russias internet, ban their disabled athletes, and remove credit card access, all of which harm the ordinary Russian people. But let's keep driving up oil prices and buying Russian oil so that Putin can afford to maim and murder people. It's disgusting.
You wanted boring? Well it looks like you're not gonna get it. But at least there's no more mean tweets.
If you followed Beau Biden's "military Career" you would understand. Their kids are cashiers America's kids are soldiers. Enigma nails it.
Good thing Biden appeased Putin by shutting down our domestic energy supply.
Biden - Poots Poodle!
'They have lost limbs, eyes and hope, writes Anthony Loyd"
That is some really schmaltzy writing for such a serious subject.
What editor left that in?
Next Step... https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/russia-and-iran-taunt-biden-in-humiliating-revival-of-nuclear-deal/
Stupid stuck on 11.
Enigma is covering himself in the blood of Ukrainian people claiming victim status for himself and his fellow travelling snowflakes.
"the hideous cost of Putin’s invasion/The brutality of the invasion"
All true. At this point, it is also the cost of not surrendering. Which is horrible in and of itself, I know, I know. If there is a realistic chance of "winning," perhaps by attrition, perhaps by the collapse of Putin's regime, the Ukrainians should fight. If not, they should stop. And we're not gonna do the fighting for them, that they know.
At this distance, it doesn't look like they can win.
Howard. You voted for this. This is the unintended consequences of the Democrat hivemind. This is the world you wanted.
Watch a few WWII history videos on youtube for a real war. This is kid stuff.
Rhhardin said, "Watch a few WWII history videos on youtube for a real war. This is kid stuff."
That's fairly disgusting attempt to downplay/one-up this story.
Also, you may note, in the equivalent timeline we'd be at about September 11, 1939 of World War II.
32 trimesters in progress. Spring Forward!
Donbas civil war 2014-2021 resulted in 3000 civilian deaths. How many civilians have died in Syria because we decided to intervene? How many in Libya? How many in Afghanistan?
This ridiculous MSM War propaganda. It never changes. When our Liberal MSM doesn't like a war, then its "What about the children?" "Oh my, can't someone stop the suffering?". When they LIKE a war, then either civilian causualties aren't mentioned, or we get assholes like Christopher Hitchens on TV chortling about bombing baghdad back to the stone age. Or Mccain singing "bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran".
And their insane hypocrisy. Jan 6th protesters rotting in Jail and Trudeau declaring a state of emergency while freezing people's bank accounting and tossing people in jail for "Mischief". And the same liberals crying Crocidile tears over Putin stopping Antiwar protests! Or crying Putin censorship over banning the BBC, while cheering when England bans RT for "Misinformation".
Its amazing how many Americans love these little "Two minutes of hate" where they get all worked about some Foreign leader or country.
The villian of the week.
Pathetic.
Ukraine is the front line in the war for freedom. If Putin wins we all lose. Try if you can to focus on something other than domestic politics.
I know. You can't.
I accused a lib acquaintance of mine to be a "buddy" of Putin. His face got bright red, I thought he going to explode, literally. He responded "Don't ever call me that". Apparently I touched a very large nerve. I calmly responded: "You are a vocal supported of dementia Joe, who is financing Putin's war with the US's purchases Russian oil, while shutting down US oil production. You're in league with both of them." It fell on bright red deaf ears.
Re: rhhardin:
Watch a few WWII history videos on youtube for a real war. This is kid stuff.
Apropos of WWII and civilian bombing, I've seen a lot of people (on twitter, etc.) claiming confidently that Russians shelling civilian populations or attacking a nuclear power plant are violations of the Geneva convention. Um . . are they? Not saying these aren't horrible acts, or that specific types of munitions might not be a violation, but . . the Geneva Convention is from 1949, and if indiscriminate bombardment of civilian population centres were a violation of the Geneva convention, the decisionmaking process around the US decision to firebomb North Korea into oblivion literally the next year, during the Korean War, would probably have looked somewhat different, wouldn't it?
Same with attacking a nuclear power plant -- again, the risk to surrounding populations is significant (cf Chernobyl) so it would make sense to ban it . . but at the same time, we're talking about a convention from 1949. Knocking out the enemy's power generation (e.g., like when we bombed the Supung Dam Hydroelectric Plant on the Yalu River) was a pretty common strategy back in 1949. Meanwhile, nuclear power plants didn't arrive until the mid 1950s. Is that really a violation of the Geneva conventions?
"This is the unintended consequences of the Democrat hivemind. This is the world you wanted."
Where's the 'unintended' part?
Well, Joe Biden couldn't have been bothered to pick up the phone, more like couldn't be trusted to do it, to avoid this war.
"How did we get here?" - Joe Biden, who clearly explained, pre-dementia, how we got here.:
https://twitter.com/AlexeiArora/status/1500824118454898689
"Ukraine is the front line in the war for freedom."
So we are going to save the world? Bullshit. What was the last "front line in the war for freedom"? Libya? Iraq? Syria, Afghanistan? It's a tripwire for WW3 and we can't let our emotions carry us away.
"Ukraine is the front line in the war for freedom. If Putin wins we all lose. Try if you can to focus on something other than domestic politics."
US domestic politics do not exist in a vacuum. The outcome of our national elections impact world affairs. Every adult knows that. We see it right now in Ukraine, AKA the Biden family's cash cow.
But if ignoring that reality helps you sleep better at night, then sweet dreams little one.
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