Will European Humanitarian Agencies Step Up

 to help the Ukrainians in the war zones affected by the flooding?  I hope so.  American taxpayers are not on the hook for this rebuilding, and anybody who has seen flood damage up close understands especially the deadly dangers those waters hold.

(I remember the Red River flooding of 1997, shortly after I moved north, and then watching on tv news the fires that took out downtown Grand Forks North Dakota.  There's a special hell that comes with rising waters... and that flood was caused by heavy snowfall melting that winter.  Not a man-made product of wartime... 

If you live long enough with Nature, you start to understand there's enough adventure and wars to fight there -- alongside your neighbors -- that you don't have to go making great destruction with tools of your own so you can play hero and fix what you've fraught...)

Plenty of ways to help fix the natural world without buying troubles for others who share the planet.  Put down the guns and get to work already, guys??  Yes you can.  Change is hard.  It doesn't come easily. Takes much more work than simply mouthing promises of protection too.  

But in the end if you can point with pride and say, "My Work built that?" and leave the planet a more peaceful and beautiful place?

It is the exact opposite of what our military warriors and most prodigious fathers of today can claim.

Reproducing yourself isn't all that much if you haven't really contributed anything more to rebuilding what's been broken in our name and are expecting others to continue to pick up after you destroy things (and people) and pound your chest with pride...