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Rose Mason's avatar

The linked video below is a reminder that it is Ukrainians who are doing the fighting and the dying while many of the rest of us stand on the sidelines groaning and shrieking in pseudo-agony while making sure that our groaning and shrieking are loud enough for everyone watching us to see just how much agony we are in.

This soldier has just been told that two of his comrades have been killed. I cannot understand what he is saying, but it is pure extemporaneous poetry.

https://twitter.com/AlexBondODUA/status/1621647573038632962

Yesterday

two of my comrades died

with whom

almost a year

we were together.

this news came in a very mundane style:

a trooper came in the evening

with TVN

with food

kind of thermos

pours a soup

and says they died

so mundane . . .

in front of a bowl of soup

told about the tragedy

about the emptiness

about the abyss

in front of a bowl of soup

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Ofoeti's avatar

Thank you for this essay. I am educated middle class, but often dumbfounded by politics, and weary of the chaos that appears daily among TV pundits. You have written rationally about one of my biggest fears (among all the other fears political strategists whip up). No doubt this too will be batted around by partisans, but having a thoughtful opinion is extremely important to me.

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