There are perks that come with being a versatile translator. Last weekend I went to the shooting range with a group of foreign volunteers. They’d driven from Europe in a convoy to deliver 20 vehicles to various units of Ukraine’s Armed Forces. I got to practice too.
Americans cannot give what they do not have. Those Americans who supported sending money and supplies to Ukraine did so based on the promise that this would be a “quick” war, lasting weeks maybe months at most. But yet almost two years and nearly $100 billion there’s no end in sight. Having come so freshly after a humiliating defeat in a twenty year long war the American appetite for drawn out combat is significantly diminished. Our economy is crashing hard and the middle and lower class are getting hit hardest. The fact that the US government has sent more than $70 billion to Ukraine since the start of the war and yet could only offer victims of the worst wildfires in modern American history $700 per family did not go over well. Wether or not we have any sort of responsibility toward Ukraine is highly debatable, the fact that we have a responsibility to take care of our own, is not. The fact that our government appears to care more about Ukraine than our own borders also doesn’t do much to help the cause of Ukrainians. It’s not the fault of the Ukrainian people that the current administration is a laughingstock, that the American economy is crashing, that the borders are unsecured or that we are essentially one very bad day away from a civil war ripping this country apart. But since those are every day realities that Americans have to face and since we are not going to be receiving foreign aide from anyone to help us out we have to secure our own oxygen masks before assisting others.
There was no full scale invasion. AUF was the biggest army in Europe (excluding Turkey) NATO trained and well equipped. Russia intervened with numerically inferior forces to prevent what would have been a full scale invasion of the Donbas by AUF.
Your grouping on that target is more than impressive!! It's commendable that you took on such an unusual challenge but it's proof that you continue to adapt to the circumstances. I imagine you must have felt some level of apprehension about "needing" to know how to do this.
“Defending democracy?” In Ukraine? It would be the funniest joke if it was not the scariest tragedy for so many. You are “lying behind the new American gun,” your salary is paid by Americans, your services (from water and gas to transportation, fire protection and ambulances, paid by Americans... Your government closed all oppositional parties, arrested orthodox priests and closed churches, refuses elections and steals by billions.
You lost every sense of right and wrong, decency, etc.
Americans cannot give what they do not have. Those Americans who supported sending money and supplies to Ukraine did so based on the promise that this would be a “quick” war, lasting weeks maybe months at most. But yet almost two years and nearly $100 billion there’s no end in sight. Having come so freshly after a humiliating defeat in a twenty year long war the American appetite for drawn out combat is significantly diminished. Our economy is crashing hard and the middle and lower class are getting hit hardest. The fact that the US government has sent more than $70 billion to Ukraine since the start of the war and yet could only offer victims of the worst wildfires in modern American history $700 per family did not go over well. Wether or not we have any sort of responsibility toward Ukraine is highly debatable, the fact that we have a responsibility to take care of our own, is not. The fact that our government appears to care more about Ukraine than our own borders also doesn’t do much to help the cause of Ukrainians. It’s not the fault of the Ukrainian people that the current administration is a laughingstock, that the American economy is crashing, that the borders are unsecured or that we are essentially one very bad day away from a civil war ripping this country apart. But since those are every day realities that Americans have to face and since we are not going to be receiving foreign aide from anyone to help us out we have to secure our own oxygen masks before assisting others.
There was no full scale invasion. AUF was the biggest army in Europe (excluding Turkey) NATO trained and well equipped. Russia intervened with numerically inferior forces to prevent what would have been a full scale invasion of the Donbas by AUF.
Your grouping on that target is more than impressive!! It's commendable that you took on such an unusual challenge but it's proof that you continue to adapt to the circumstances. I imagine you must have felt some level of apprehension about "needing" to know how to do this.
Wonderful story as usual.
another nice piece Larissa- thxs
“Defending democracy?” In Ukraine? It would be the funniest joke if it was not the scariest tragedy for so many. You are “lying behind the new American gun,” your salary is paid by Americans, your services (from water and gas to transportation, fire protection and ambulances, paid by Americans... Your government closed all oppositional parties, arrested orthodox priests and closed churches, refuses elections and steals by billions.
You lost every sense of right and wrong, decency, etc.
Cease and desist.