Absolutely. What a brave and inspiring leader. Cometh the hour and all that. I hope you’re wrong that he won’t survive. I do think Putin vastly underestimated the resistance- which happens when you surround yourself with yay-sayers. I read somewhere Putin is stuck in 1992…
It’s painful to watch this unfold. It feels extremely important that ‘the West’ doesn’t allow Ukraine to fall
He’s giving us a clear lesson in leadership and courage! Hopefully, with continued media exposure, Putin won’t unleash the same destruction and atrocities he did in Syria
I agree wholeheartedly Suzanne. It's hard not to cry when listening to him, his fellow countrymen and women. But I can't help feeling that the West and NATO have some questions to answer. Why encourage Ukraine towards this precipice with promises of NATO membership "at some future point" when they surely knew that was never feasible. Biden has just admitted as much, announcing - as though from the moral high ground - that NATO boots cannot tread Ukrainian soil because that would bring two superpowers into direct conflict. When, for goodness sake, would UKrainian NATO membership NOT have entailed the very real risk of such confrontation?! Meatime we go on buying Putin's oil and gas and filling his war chest.
Oh indeed we do. It's not like we didn't see the troop build up etc. Are we prepared to go without Russian gas etc? As ever it will be the poorest who suffer from all this. Who will take Putin down but his own people?
I think (and hope) his own people take him down. I too have been watching and reading tweets on Ukraine for most of the day. So frightened for their leader. I dread hearing news of him being killed. Johnson has just said we will take refugees yet I'm sure Patel said we wouldn't earlier. They can't even get that right. There was probably too much outrage over it so now they have backtracked. Makes you proud to be British, doesn't it? There will be a lot of sunflowers in Ukraine this summer. As always, your writing is excellent Suzanne. You express my feelings far better than I can at times. xxx.
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❤️ thank you Suzanne. He is such a brave man.
Very moving piece, Suzanne. I hope your eyes get better soon.
Thank you .So much better which is why I could write today
Absolutely. What a brave and inspiring leader. Cometh the hour and all that. I hope you’re wrong that he won’t survive. I do think Putin vastly underestimated the resistance- which happens when you surround yourself with yay-sayers. I read somewhere Putin is stuck in 1992…
It’s painful to watch this unfold. It feels extremely important that ‘the West’ doesn’t allow Ukraine to fall
He’s giving us a clear lesson in leadership and courage! Hopefully, with continued media exposure, Putin won’t unleash the same destruction and atrocities he did in Syria
That's the fear isn't it? All that botox has rotted his brain ....
He looks more and more like a squirrel
I agree wholeheartedly Suzanne. It's hard not to cry when listening to him, his fellow countrymen and women. But I can't help feeling that the West and NATO have some questions to answer. Why encourage Ukraine towards this precipice with promises of NATO membership "at some future point" when they surely knew that was never feasible. Biden has just admitted as much, announcing - as though from the moral high ground - that NATO boots cannot tread Ukrainian soil because that would bring two superpowers into direct conflict. When, for goodness sake, would UKrainian NATO membership NOT have entailed the very real risk of such confrontation?! Meatime we go on buying Putin's oil and gas and filling his war chest.
Oh indeed we do. It's not like we didn't see the troop build up etc. Are we prepared to go without Russian gas etc? As ever it will be the poorest who suffer from all this. Who will take Putin down but his own people?
Yes, they gave up their nukes with the promise of our protection.
Indeed. Let's hope someone is brave enough to do so - but not the Salisbury boys, they'd only bungle it!
thanks for letting me cry, sweetly and sadly
Hi Ruth...I am off FB by the way as got banned again so cant be bothered!!
Very chuffed to be referenced in this ❤️
I hope you didn't mind Neil !!! But its true. x
I love it!
I think (and hope) his own people take him down. I too have been watching and reading tweets on Ukraine for most of the day. So frightened for their leader. I dread hearing news of him being killed. Johnson has just said we will take refugees yet I'm sure Patel said we wouldn't earlier. They can't even get that right. There was probably too much outrage over it so now they have backtracked. Makes you proud to be British, doesn't it? There will be a lot of sunflowers in Ukraine this summer. As always, your writing is excellent Suzanne. You express my feelings far better than I can at times. xxx.
Can't we all plant sunflowers in solidarity? Here, and all over the world?
I have seen on social media that people are ordering sunflower seeds from Amazon and sending them to the Russian embassy.
Now we’ve got to start watching Servant of the People, the show Zelensky starred in about him becoming President.
Thank you for the heartfelt words. And thank you for highlighting the absurd apologists for Putin and the deadly critics of NATO.
Wonderful piece, Suzanne. Loved every word. x
Couldn't agree more. And Z shows up our own bunch for the self-serving narcissists they are
Well done. Suzanne. We're on the same page. "Meanwhile, the dictators’ forces fan out around the globe, not just in the shabby fatigues of proxy armies and the crisp uniforms of military attachés. There are all those dapper-suited business executives from state-owned enterprises, too, and their inducements have proven quite effective." https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/why-sanctions-over-the-ukraine-invasion-wont-stop-putin/ I just paid for a sub here. Would love it if you returned the favour: https://therealstory.substack.com/p/ukraine-a-peoples-war?utm_source=url
This piece breaks my heart