From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv—The image of American soldiers kneeling by the ruzzian airplane and rolling the red carpet before the world’s #1 terrorist is truly remarkable. 🙁 I wish to unsee it.
(c) Kateryna Ovcharenko
“I’m listening to Putin’s speech in the original, just a step ahead of the English translation, and his tone and rhetorical tricks drag me back to the distant past—to the syrupy but deceitful speeches of communist leaders on Soviet TV, the KGB officers’ familiar attempts to ‘persuade,’ to lure people into trusting their lies, all that corrosive ugliness. How jarring and vulgar it sounds now, coming from Alaska, in front of an American audience, in an American setting! And the approving nods and smiles of the U.S. president look downright absurd. It feels like a bad dream. If only I could wake up…”
(c) Sergiy Tymchenko
Voice of Ukraine 