RE: Winter contrasts of the Botanical garden. Kyiv, Feb 2024
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You described everything very accurately and truthfully. I completely agree. I know you can't give up, but sometimes it's so hard that I wonder why I'm still alive. I want to feel, at least for 1 day, that this is a life that has taste, and not just existence..
Thanks a lot for your support 💙💛
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My ancestors starved and froze with General Washington during the winter at Valley Forge, overwhelmed by the onslaught of the British Empire. I can only imagine they felt the same way. At that time they were wondering if the French would come through for them or not; wondering if the French would step up and fulfill their pledges to provide ships and guns, or abandon them to face the British alone (in which case they'd have likely been defeated that year). Eventually, the French came through and even sent their navy to join the war.
My ex-wife's grandfather fought against the Japanese defending his homeland, the Philippines, as he waited to see if the Americans would get off their butts and actually do something to aid them. Eventually they did, and dropped two atom bombs on Japan.
The West is slow, and it takes Western politicians a long time to quit sipping their little cups of tea and roll up their sleeves to actually do something, and too many people die every time we dither about whether to get involved or not. But they will.