Dear Pink24:

“Honestly, the situation in Ukraine triggers in me memories of all the smaller situations I’ve been in where I’ve been perceived as weak… and the abuse I’ve fought against my entire life. As if who am I to have the right to live my dreams, make my own choices… the pain of someone feeling like they can just TAKE from me, as if I don’t even exist” –

–  Powerful!

One of the reasons Putin invaded Ukraine was that there are millions of Americans currently prepared to vote Putin’s admirer Trump back into the white house in 2024. Only a week ago, after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Trump referred to Putin and the invasion of Ukraine as “genius”, “wonderful”, “savvy” and “pretty smart“, admiring Putin for invading Ukraine: “He’s taking over a country, really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people and just walking right in“.

* Having read your August 2018 thread, I figure that you see Ukraine as you, and Russia as primarily your abusive mother… Mother Russia, so to speak?

“I feel like Zelensky is fighting for all of us, and I really want him to win. It’s like I want my faith to be restored, I want to know that Good CAN triumph over Evil.” – standing up against abuse and oppression (evil) makes one a hero. Let us all be heroes and stand up against oppression: privately, in the context of our own families, and publicly, against the rising autocracy worldwide.

As Martin Luther King Jr said: “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed”.

anita