Volodymyr Zelensky told us the other day that, so far, 31,000 Ukrainians have died in the invasion that Putin ordered on 2/24/22. Two bloody years with more to come.
Zelensky made no mention of the wounded Ukraine has suffered as it is a military secret.
Ukraine was never a military threat to Putin but it was a threat in that Ukrainians wanted freedoms that Russians don’t have. What would happen if those ideas spread?
We should convene 31,000 volunteers in a given place and put signs on them, ‘I’m Ukrainian and I was killed in the war. Why am I dead? Because Putin said so.’
Those people willing to protest could march for a stretch in their cities and ask, ‘what are we doing about the 31,OOO Ukrainians that Putin has killed?’
Surely, some will object and say that they have other problems.
Okay. Yes. But you’re not dead. A missile didn’t destroy your home or left you crippled.
But it is hard to get people to pass on their favorite entertainment for the sake of a protest with an uncertain outcome.
It is hard to think of other people’s pain. To think of their suffering.
And that is so with any other kind of gross injustice that goes on and on and on. Like with racism here and anywhere.
In Russia, Putin has such control over the population that there have been no serious efforts to unseat him. The brave Alexei Navalny tried and just died in a prison a few days ago. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group, a…
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