We Stand With Ukraine? But these Civilians Aren't Standing Anymore...
"People are DYING! Do something! DO something!!" the media cried!
Where was all this concern for the war dead when we were waving blue-and-yellow flags, and lighting up our bridges and monuments here, cheering on the war? Did you think nobody would die? In horrible ways? Welcome to the real world where it's not like at the movies.
Life is not a field of sunflowers, friends...
Did you think no civilians would be killed in urban warfare? That only soldiers would die? And you were okay with that, in fact cheering the executions of captured Russian soldiers back when it seemed the Ukrainians were "winning"? Well, Winning Ugly this is...
It's a war. If you cheerled this, and now are shocked -- shocked I tell you! -- to find civilians brutally killed in wartime... well hush up already. Cry your tears, and remember how it feels now as you view the dead bodies piled up in the street...
War isn't the answer. Everybody loses. The more "supporters" you have out there in the world egging you on, the more you are willing to sacrifice to the death to save your country. Other people.
I never expected Zelensky to fight to the death himself, and now that the bodies are piling up on his watch, maybe his strategy -- and all the pretty pics of the civilians arming themselves with vodka-bottle Molotov cocktails to serve up to the invading troops is not so defiantly amusing...
Fight on? America wants this war, but make no mistake now: war is deadly, criminally so. Choose life. That's the harder course really. Building. Destroying is easy. And cheerleading from the sidelines easier.
Hush now. Live and learn?
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