Russia Invades Ukraine VII
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All the Europeans I encountered while there for the last 2 ½ weeks are pro-Ukraine...flags flying every where. One of our waitresses on ship was from Russia...as was a violinist. Most people were very cordial to them...I witness one person stupidly asking the waitress how she felt. She answered appropriately...I later apologized to her and we talked a bit. She said she stays out of political talk and is just trying to earn a living on the cruise ship. I was so angry that it took me 2 days to cool down. Talk about an "ugly American..."
The Russian general today said they wanted all of southern Ukraine and the Russian-speaking part of Moldova. I could be fooled, but IDK where they're going to get the army to accomplish that...
Just a good start.
A few blocks from the condo we had in Vail, there's a little
German restaurant which used to employ young German girls in the summers for servers. I enjoyed it, chatting with them and asking them to guess what part of Germany I was from. IDK if the Germans got too expensive or what, but they started hiring girls from other parts of Europe. One summer, they had two girls working the outside terrace. One day I asked and the girl said she was a Slovak. A few days later, we had lunch on the terrace again, different server, and I asked her. She said she was Czech. I assumed they were friends. They were working in an area maybe 50' on a side. I mentioned the other server and she said "Oh, we don't speak." Divisions imported from Europe to America. Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible, or, at least, used to be, although I understand they are drifting apart. It makes it all the more amazing how close English has remained among the British Commonwealth nations and the US. Of course, modern media has something to do with it, but then there are the Czech republic and Slovakia, slam up against one another...
Idk but it feels like we are all in at this point. Between Biden saying we sent 10 anti armor systems for every Russian tank in Ukraine and sending 90 howitzers so we can start to supply rounds(we don’t have rounds for the systems they have) it feels like this should have happened earlier, but is a good step. We should be telling these guys to find anything they need from NATO countries and we will back fill with modern equipment.
We watch quite a bit of F1 racing which is broadcast by Sky Sports on ESPN. I just remarked today that young Western European's English is much easier to understand than that spoken in Scotland and Ireland. That has been my experience as well, although very limited, young well educated German's speak perfect English without an accent.
Far too much to be a coincidence. Not just the former Russian gas executives, but also their families dead.
www.cnn.com
Two Russian oligarchs and their families found dead within 24 hours | CNN
Investigators say it's unclear whether two Russian gas executives were in contact before they, along with their families, were found dead within 24 hours. CNN's Brian Todd reports.
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This is thick reading, but the cultural differences between the two countries, to some degree, come down to two authors, Pushkin and Shevchenko...
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I can’t link it to its graphic nature, but there is a photo journalist who posted a story that came up on my Yahoo feed. It’s disheartening and sickening. I don’t want WW3 but we need to do everything we can to assist the Ukrainians. The Russian soldiers are barbarians!
They (and the Chinese) like to refer to the West as the Anglo Saxons. Never mind that maybe 10 percent of the US population has Anglo Saxon ancestry.
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