Voice of Ukraine

From: Maia Mikhaluk (1230th day)

The words from Maria Burmaka’s post strike deeply:

“Here’s what I’ve been thinking about today. The whole world is watching us being destroyed — live. As if it’s some kind of real-life Squid Game, only streamed online.

And the world is spectacularly failing every test of humanity and civilization.

The Overton window is expanding, and now the fact that they’re firing missiles and drones at us daily no longer seems like an unthinkable crime to the leaders of some countries!

That very Overton window — the concept where society gradually begins to accept the unthinkable as normal — hasn’t just cracked. It’s been turned inside out. What should provoke shock, outrage, resolutions, and consequences is now simply labeled a “complicated situation.”

People are being killed by the hundreds, cities are being flattened, and an entire nation is being wiped off the face of the Earth.

Yet just 1,500–2,000 kilometers away, people continue living their beautiful lives — and even complain that Ukrainian mothers are taking their children to safety, saving them from death. And what would you do?!

What will become acceptable next?

Where have all those lofty philosophical teachings and constitutional principles gone — the ones that claim that the person, their honor, and dignity are at the center of everything?!”