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From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (338th day of ruzzian invasion): Now FB brings in the Memory section more and more posts from last year that remind me how we were already aware of the invasion that was about to start. I reread my post about this Netflix movie last year and I wouldn’t change a word. It’s good to know that by now, most of the countries in the civilized world do understand that the threat that ruzzia is posing is not just to Ukraine.

Of course, there are still leaders who are either putin’s puppets or useful idiots who even now say that the war can be ended easily by forcing Ukraine to agree to ruzzia’s conditions or by not providing any help in Ukraine in hopes that putin will soon take over the whole country. I don’t want to comment on how immoral those suggestions are, but they are also a sign of weak leadership and a lack of critical and strategic thinking. Monsters like hitler and putin can not be stopped by feeding them territories they desire, they can only be stopped by force. Allowing putin to take Ukraine will not stop war, it will take it to a new level – he will attack other neighbors, just like Hitler did.

Hungarian president Orban continues to make scandalous remarks like saying that Ukraine now is no-man’s-land and continuing to call for stopping sanctions against ruzzia and discounting help to Ukraine. Orban’s right-wing populist government has pursued increasingly close economic and diplomatic ties with Russia over the last decade. It has major agreements on purchasing ruzzian gas, oil and nuclear fuel.

Orban’s greed clouds his vision. Interestingly it will not be the first time Hungary chooses the wrong side in a war – check out which side they were on in World War 1 and 2. Thankfully, Orban and a few other lovers of putin are a small minority. The majority understand that lasting peace can be achieved only when aggressors and invaders are stopped.

32 days left till spring…

January 28, 2022 post:

Why do Russian threats of invading Ukraine matter not only to Ukraine? One of the easiest ways to answer that question is to recommend a new Netflix movie: Munich – The Edge of War.

The parallels will be hard to miss as history is repeating itself in front of your eyes. Evil, power-hungry men will keep on their evil deeds as long as and will go as far as the world will allow. The German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 under the pretext of “protecting German-speakers in Sudetland”. When Putin came to steal Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia in 2008 and Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 he borrowed Hitler’s “clever” excuse – Putin was “protecting” Russian speakers. As a Russian speaker who lives in Ukraine, I assure you we didn’t need Putin’s “protection”. The world reprimanded Putin for stealing other countries’ territories, but the Monster was still welcome to the table of world leaders and lack of consequences gives Monster the green light to continue his agenda.

In the beginning of the movie Munich – The Edge of War Chamberlain addresses the nation in his radio speech: “How horrible and fantastic it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing”. Maybe that’s how you feel about Ukraine. But keep in mind that this is not just some local conflict, take a look at a bigger picture of past and present actions and demands of Putin. It’s not only Ukraine that Putin wants.