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Many poets have been sending in poetry on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Post your poetry directly below.
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“A brass abyss of polished hell” — wow.
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C.B., I absolutely love these!!! You are a real truth-teller!!!
These are perfect gnomic verses. They follow the tradition of ancient gnomic poetry-- short, concise, and pithy, while packed with…
Ukraine Rain (The Holodomor, 1932-33)
The Ukraine rain fell long and hard
From clouds above on high,
But what were shed
Were tears of red
To spill on fields awry.
As storms of rage passed o’er the land
A horseman through it rode.
A black horse day
Of wild dismay
As floods of red rain flowed.
Beneath the yellow and the blue
The Ukraine rain poured on,
It steeped the ground
For miles around
And harvest yield was gone.
As people cried and people died,
The pain of rain aflame;
With nought to eat
The yellow wheat
Was plundered beyond shame
And all about the crippled souls
Would weep through blood red eyes
As once again
The Ukraine rain
Screamed down from blood red skies.
Alan S Jeeves
That is a wonderful poem, Alan, that is perfectly descriptive of the situation! The imagery and use of color give me a visceral vision that is haunting.
Hello Roy. I am pleased that you have read ‘Ukraine Rain’ and commented. The poem was written before the current situation (2017 in fact) and was inspired by the book ‘Red Famine’ by Anne Applebaum. Her estimate is that c.4 million Ukrainian people were starved to death during the Holodomor. I don’t think the Holodomore is a well known event in the west, certainly not as well documented as the ‘Holocaust’. I hope that my poem will inspire people to do a little research on this terrible time for Ukraine. Kind regards, Alan.
ALARM! WAR!
They are there the criminals of war
With their bombardments stunning
The sky and the cities of Ukraine.
Opposites what do they do?
Opposites are made
To the sound of weapons
And they are just as criminals of war
That they.
Their arrogance is useless
Nor their threats of sentences
Well they are dismayed
And they stay scared
Leaving the field free
To crime and vile murder
Of a defenseless population
Who sees his honor, his country and his life
Hanging from the barrels of tanks
As if those were cat fur.
As always some condemn
And others applaud and bless
That’s how bad humans are!
While the echo of the bombs
They hear resound
In villages, in towns and cities
Seriously raise their necks
Those who take part
In these joys of war
And their weapons factories.
Who would believe that in the 21st century
Being smart
As they say we are humans
One another
Scale regions, countries and nations
With panic, terror, crime and fear!
So bad are those criminals
Eastern frights
Like the ones in the west
So scary
Only for the desire to steal, loot
And annihilate nations
To achieve an empire.
Damn they are¡
-Daniel de Culla
An apt description and representation of those who foist war upon another.
What is this? Are we to witness the destruction of Ukraine?
Will our rhetoric be ignored and will our protests be in vain?
Europe faced an evil tyrant in the not-so-distant past.
It paid the price for liberty and hoped that peace would last.
And you, the Russian people, from your slumber now awake,
depose that madding Moscow Beast, your lives too, are at stake.
Where is that erstwhile bravery and that revolution pride?
Democracy or tyranny? It’s time to choose a side.
Oh, Ukraine we watch and weep as your sons take up the fight,
to protect your nation’s freedom in the face of Russian might.
The West salutes you and your cause and stands with you this day,
We’ll bring this Bloody Bear to heel. We’ll make this despot pay.
Truly an excellent contribution! My feelings fit yours.
Quiet, and shaking, and breaking down,
Uncertain what to say or do;
I never meant to anger you.
But I cannot calm my beating brain
As it comprehends the war
On our continent again.
For how far can it go this time,
Can one mistake send us away?
What the hell am I supposed to do,
Useless here in England,
With nothing in my hand,
And nothing much to say.
The dead and living are not gone,
Brave Ukrainian women and men;
They are bolder in the face of pain
Than I am in this den of peace
Sleepless and unfit to fight,
With a cold abyss of night,
Crawling across our continent again.
What can we do? One offers love,
One offers what he knows he must,
You call him inconsiderate,
But his is not a song of hate,
It is a song of dust.
Perhaps tomorrow never comes,
Perhaps the madman settles down,
Perhaps I make a bloody stain
Beside the ghostly dressing gown
At the sad foot of my stairs –
I pray it works again, our world,
That love can break this iron chain.
As one closer to the war zone, this is really a great poem with feeling that strikes me in the heart! A vivid portrayal of care, concern and thoughts that enter the mind under such adverse circumstances!
The heartbreaking callousness of Putin’s advance in Ukraine has brought to mind a poem I wrote some years ago. I believe it is apt today:
CIVILISED MAN
Life, unpredictable, spins us around,
Leaves us dumped dizzily down on the ground;
Careless, it raises us high in the sky
To sit on cloud nine and think we can fly,
When we’re no more than krill sucked down in hoards,
Or grains of sand, odd blades of grass in swards!
We’re no more than raindrops poured from above,
Except we breathe, eat, sleep, drink, shout, sing, love–
And kill.
So lofty we sit, our lordly disdain
Spurning those others who missed this sky train,
Who nurture the hope that they will be hurled
By the next typhoon way above their world.
Then, fired up, they’ll charge, conquer, scream success
And sweep us old birds from our cloud nine nests,
To downsize and lie near some peaceful cove
So they can breathe, eat, sleep, drink, shout, sing, love–
And kill.
The next millennium will soon have rushed by,
And none will care who was sitting on high
At this point in time, this year of our Lord.
Which sand hill was tall, what grass filled which sward.
No, they’ll fly through space to the distant stars,
Fight their sick wars on Jupiter and Mars
And hail peace on earth! But, push come to shove,
Man will just breathe, eat, sleep, drink, shout, sing, love–
And kill.
Tod Benjamin
Outstanding contribution, Tod. Yes, it fits like a glove.
My thoughts on Ukraine Invasion as requested by Mike Bryant.
Mike Bryant and Joseph Salemi make some excellent points. The Russian invasion could have been avoided by changes in American foreign policy. Russia would have made a perfect friend of the United States, both as a counter to China, one of their historic enemies, and as a counter to Islamic forces. Speaking of Realpolitik, as Joseph mentioned, the newly independent states of southern Asia, like Kazakhstan with a long Russian border are Muslims (Islam most practiced and nominally accepted). Behind them to the south are Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Given the right diplomatic approach, we had a comity of interests. An American leader might have convinced Putin of parallel interests.
After the supposed end of the cold war in the 1990’s, the Russian people were friendly to Americans. Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin the Russians made efforts to be friends with the United States. The Russian people loved American movies, culture and products of the times. Russian trading companies sought American products and interface with Americans. I observed and participated in the transition. That included: 1.) In 1988 to 1990, as the Commander of the American 30-member Portal Monitoring team for the On-Site Inspection Agency in Votkinsk (Urals), we were invited to hospitals, holidays, picnics, and even the rifle production plant in Izhevsk where we met with Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the rifle by that name. 2.) In 1992, as VP of an international trade company after retirement I met with Putin in St. Petersburg, where he was the international trade advisor to the mayor of St. Petersburg. He had “resigned,” supposedly as a KGB Lieutenant Colonel. Putin was polite and clever in my dealings with him. 3.) In 1993, I was the First US Foreign Commercial Officer in Vladivostok and traveled the entire Russian Far East, which was about the size of the United States. Everywhere I went companies were interested in American products and were always on friendly terms. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow appointed me to observe the first Russian elections in Birobidzhan, which was the heart of the “Red Belt” (still hard-core communists). My KGB (presumed) escort was accommodating as I went from poll to poll and the people were receptive. 4.) In 1995, I was recruited by IBM for the same territory and spent a lot of time going to Russian Far East cities, again being well received and welcomed. We sold $6 million in computer equipment in the Far East the first year.
Geopolitical realities and Realpolitik certainly explain Russian angst regarding Ukraine: 1.) Ukraine was interested in NATO membership. “Ukraine applied to begin a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) in 2008. Plans for NATO membership were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych, who preferred to keep the country non-aligned, was elected President.” (Source: Wikipedia.org) NATO had not approved membership for Ukraine on three grounds: (a) Corruption. (b) Shaky standing of democracy. (c) Russian opposition. 2.) Ukraine came to be regarded as a NATO partner and was rendered support in 2014 against Russian “annexation” of the Crimea. 3.) Ukraine is the soft “underbelly” both of Belarus and Russia. 4.) Ukraine has extensive resources including being #1 in the world in sunflower oil production with Russian Black Sea region being #2.
In terms again of Realpolitik, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have become full NATO members and are already poised on the Russian border. The stationing of missiles certainly in countries like Poland and Turkey are in sufficient close proximity anyway. Note: Georgia has also applied for NATO membership.
I have so many questions as to timing and motivation for Russia to declare war against Ukraine:
1.) Was the Ukraine government getting close to NATO membership? Those friendly to Russia could have reported it.
2.) Was Belarus the real instigator by voicing concerns with a potential NATO state along their entire southern border?
3.) Why were we not more prepared with Russia’s earlier recent provocations in the Crimea?
4.) Does Putin wish to reestablish the Russian Empire?
5.) Some pundits believe he lost his mind, but why?
6.) Where will Putin stop his forces?
7.) Was Putin convinced the timing was right with a weak American administration, or at least one he perceived to be weak and would capitulate to demands?
8.) Was Putin convinced of the certainty of a strong return of an American Republican return to dominate Congress and takeover the White House?
9.) In his recent friendly meeting with Xi, did they make a deal in support of each other including over Formosa?
My conclusions: Russia should have been treated as a friend, but with military power and nuclear deterrence to back our side of the friendship. War is never the answer, but we now have to deal with Russian aggression and the return of enmity. My best hope is the stringency of sanctions will have an effect and remove Putin from power.
I Sit and Think by Luigi Pagano
A parody of J.J. Tolkien’s “I Sit Beside the Fire and Think”
https://genius.com/J-r-r-tolkien-i-sit-beside-the-fire-annotated
I sit beside the fire and think
of the news I’ve read;
that Russia has invaded Ukraine
fills me with dread.
I sit on a garden bench
underneath the wisteria
and learn that Putin
has said it’s all hysteria.
I watch the TV and think
of how safe the world would be
if everyone stopped trying
to achieve supremacy.
There are some politicians
who have no sense of shame
and use so-called diplomacy
just like a kind of game.
I sit and think of an incident
that everyone knows
when two powerful nations
very nearly came to blows.
Both Nikita and JFK
wished to be the master
in the Cuban missile crisis
that was almost a disaster.
But while I sit and think
of things that went on before
I would hate to contemplate
the prospect of an encore.
© Luigi Pagano 2022
LTC Peterson, you show solid perception of the ways in which American and E.U. idiocy have brought about this unnecessary war. But at the same time you disregard the wider cultural factors that Mike Bryant alluded to when he invited your commentary.
You haven’t mentioned at all the intense anti-Russian animus of the neocons, still powerfully embedded in our Deep State, and still itching for another war with anyone who shows the slightest disinclination to accept globalist hegemony and politically correct pieties from Brussels. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, these neocons (many of them red-diaper babies whose families were pro-Communist and traitors) have been in a state of rage against the rebirth of a traditional Mother Russia which rejects the modern corruption, sexual degeneracy, and consumerist decay of the West.
You also neglect to even refer once to George Soros and his machinations. When it comes to the Ukraine, he is the unmentioned elephant in the drawing room. His money and instigation created much of the earlier disorder that led to this conflict. Putin is not insane — he’s just a strong leader trying to protect the vital interests of his nation. But Soros is both insane and monstrous, and not taking his intentions into account is like discussing the 1917 Communist Revolution without mentioning Lenin.
When you say that you hope Putin will fall, you are simply playing directly into the hands of the neocons, who would like nothing better than to see Russia become prey to globalist banking interests and E.U. diktats. Do we really want Russia to become another liberalized, LGBT-loving, trannie-ridden, gender-feminist, politically correct cultural wasteland like much of the West?
Trusting to “sanctions” shows that you already are aware that an actual military response to the Russian incursion is not in the cards, and never will be — certainly not as long as our military forces are riddled with stupid generals and a careerist officer corps who are mostly interested in Critical Race Theory, girls in combat, specialized pronouns, and trannies as fighter pilots.
Most of your points were summarized in my word, “corruption,” that subsumed the Soros “elephant” among the other things mentioned. You and Mike already explicated those situations and I understood them. I am in great sympathy with the neoconservative stance against the new left and their prescriptions for political change. The removal of Putin now is my hope, not for his stewardship of the Russian state, but for his blatant disregard for international law and order by a needless direct military attack. Western degeneracy is a cultural subject well-suited to a separate discussion. Suffice it to say your own points are not anathema to me.
You sympathize with the neocons? With the ideological fanatics who have dragged us into several bloody and disastrous wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Kosovo) to satisfy their maniacal urge to make the world “safe for democracy” and for the countercultural stench that the word “democracy” now stands for?
Those neocon guys are not conservatives, Lieutenant-Colonel. And they are doing nothing at all to fight the “new left.” Their basic loyalties are older and deeper and more ethnically based, and have nothing to do with the defense of the West and of Western culture.
By the way, the words “international law and order” were long ago pre-empted and assimilated by globalists as buzzwords to ratify whatever they want to justify themselves. Since you were a member of the intelligence community, I’m surprised you don’t realize that.
This war in the Ukraine is crucially linked to cultural disputes over the Great Reset, and the New World Order. And that’s not anything that is going to be debated or even mentioned at fantasy-festivals like the United Nations.
Dr. Salemi, I agree with every word. How long must we be the policemen of the world? I understand that the more bombs we make and use, the more money the cons… I mean the neocons make.
I wonder if the Neocons are ready to take down Xi. I think it’s pretty rich comparing Putin to Hitler while Xi rips the organs out of the Uighur and the Falun Gong.
The world that Xi wants is exactly the same world that the Neocons want, and it has nothing to do with democracy.
It’s funny that the politically correct now must use the name “Formosa” instead of Taiwan… who are we trying to please here?
PUTIN IS PLAYING POKER
By Roy E. Peterson (March 1, 2022)
Putin has joined Stalin
In the Russian lexicon
Of the country’s leaders
Who have done the greatest wrong.
In fact, he has joined Hitler
In the outlaw pantheon.
A criminal in prison
Is now where he should belong.
He is not playing chess
Or checkers anymore.
Putin is playing poker,
Since he has gone to war.
His cards are on the table,
Since he went into attack.
Demands are promised daily
As the nuclear card’s held back.
He knows some other players
Have a joker from the deck.
He could lose advantages
While he is still held in check.
Although he may be bluffing
And his chances he may like,
It all could vanish quickly
If the players made a strike.
I suspect that he will win
The first jackpot of the game.
He’ll rake his poker chips in
With his war in the Ukraine.
It’s easy when your hiding
To maintain a poker face.
The only question then is
Do some others hold an ace?
SANCTIONS AND THE UKRAINE
By Roy E. Peterson (March 1, 2022)
No matter how stringent the sanction,
It’s not enough to stop Ukraine’s invasion.
When a modern nation goes to war,
Sanctions will not stop them anymore.
The worldwide Taekwondo federation
I saw just engaged in one big sanction.
They took away Vlad Putin’s blackbelt.
I wonder how that horrendous sanction felt?
I know the world will delete financial aps
Hoping that will lead to a collapse.
With an invader conduct no more trade
Until the aggressor goes into retrograde.
When might makes right decides to ride,
The cultural norms are then set aside.
Leaving economic chaos in its wake
War is still war for goodness sake.
No matter how stringent is the sanction
Force must meet force in combat action.
Regardless of what will be the cost,
Without countering the force, all will be lost.
No answers, Lieutenant-Colonel? Just more blustering poetry in favor of another neocon war?
Answered below in another comment. We are on the same ideological page. I already stated that war is not the answer. I differ over my understanding of neocon, since I believe they morphed over time and lost their socialist roots of the 1960’s. The term has no meaning for me anymore, except historically. You may read the rest in the next comment.
Dr. Salemi and Mike Bryant, perhaps you are stuck with the origins of neoconservatism in the 1960’s and the old ways of thinking who they are. Although they began as socialists, those roots have long since disintegrated. They were opposed to the Great Society but supported the Vietnam War (which by the way we had won militarily). I was at a dinner in Moscow for the Moscow Military Association in 1985. A Vietnamese General said with bombing of North Vietnam, they were a week away from capitulation. We lost the peace, not the war. Historically, neocons ideologically moved from the anti-Stalinist left to the more moderate camp of American conservatism.
During the 1990’s neocons were opposed both to Bush and Clinton foreign policies. I did not support the war in Bosnia! That was a travesty. That should have been left to Yugoslavia, in my opinion. I was the coordinator of human intelligence for the first Gulf War in Iraq and had a special bunker buster bomb made that was delivered when I had intelligence Saddam Hussein was going to spend the night in a particular bunker. I communicated that to the Air Force Targeting Staff in the Pentagon. The precise bomb blew up the bunker completely (as designed from my acquisition of the plans for the levels in the bunker) with many of his close staff supporters, but he had made a change in his location at the last minute.
Personally, I am not a neoconservative, but share many of their present-day ideological precepts that include disenchantment with pacifist foreign policy, the Democratic Party, the New Left, and countercultures of all varieties. I support their promotion of democracy around the world, peace through strength, hatred for communism in all its forms and disdain for political radicalism.
The neoconservative movement that has morphed over time often refers to a 2004 book by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, titled, “America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order,” which in that time rallied around three themes: 1.) Belief coming from religious conviction that human choices are between good and evil and the willingness to confront the evil. 2.) Relationships between states is based on military strength and willingness to use it. 3.) Focus on countering global Islam as the anti-Christ. As I said I am not a neocon, but admire many of their present precepts.
The first casualty of war is truth. Don’t believe everything you hear, see or read.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sfArW6zppYw&feature=youtu.be
Excellent point. I was victimized by the mobile crematorium article. Thank you for the youtube connection. FYI: I believe ideologically we are on the same page. Beware, truth on all sides is suffering as a casualty of this war. I always appreciate your perspectives and insight.
Thanks Roy, here’s a little truth worth looking over:
https://rairfoundation.com/world-economic-forum-and-soros-rally-behind-ukraine-delete-connection-to-putin-video/
Mike, that is a powerful link telling unpleasant truths that too many people are unwilling to hear. Soros and his disgusting “Open Society” Foundation are at the root of this war.
I only hope and pray that not a single American soldier will be sent to die in this new Neocon war to spread faux democracy and left-liberal ideas world-wide. But I’m afraid too many glandular and gullible American conservatives are reacting exactly the way the Neocons want.
You can kiss the Republican landslide of this November goodbye if Biden becomes a “war” president. The Neocons are vicious, but they sure are smart, aren’t they?
Mike, I read your WEF/Soros source. 1.) I believe Putin’s motivation, among other things, was fear of Ukraine joining NATO and deciding the time was most propitious with a weak presidency. 2.) I once wrote a poem coining the term “Sorosis” of society. Soros in my mind is a purveyor of evil. I liked Salemi’s thoughts on his demise. 3.) War, like politics, makes strange bedfellows to use an old term. 4.) As you may have realized from my previous comments, war is never the answer, although it is in self-defense. The military prays for peace but prepares for war. 5.) I neither want WEF/Soros to win on anything, nor Putin to succeed. That is the dilemma. My sadness is for the people of Ukraine in this unnecessary venture.
The Gods of War
It’s so uncouth
To speak the truth.
So bow to Soros, bow to Xi
Kowtow to force, why can’t you see?
Forget your God, forget your culture.
Don’t spare the rod, become a vulture.
Feed upon the spoils of war
For money matters so much more
Than freedom or tranquility,
The gods of war shall set you free.
WHEN MAN PLAYS GOD
When man plays God, then right and wrong
Are nothing but an earthly song
That rings in notes from those who ‘know’
The way the world is meant to go –
The Davos gang all bang that gong.
The greedy Schwab-and-Soros throng
Schmooze the clueless Neocon.
We wring our hands in tear-drenched woe
When man plays God.
The powers that be will play ping-pong
With naïve fools who play along.
They hobnob with the very foe
Whose game is honed to fool J. Doe –
All names are naught in War’s cruel con
When man plays God.
… please don’t think I disagree with war… my grandfather fought in WWII, and I am grateful for the freedom he gave me. But, this is different. In this war the governments of the Western World are against their own people. If you’re in any doubt, please see the plight of the Canadian truckers and the political prisoners in the USA.
I am with you on what is going on in the Western World. We must change that! We must change our government and pray for change in others. On the other hand, Soros, bribes, and other extraneous material are a deplorable sideshow to what has happened and detract from concerns for the Ukrainian people and concerns for ensuring we are prepared for what else may happen. I already said more than once, war is not the answer, however, self-defense and military preparedness is essential. I am praying it gets rid of propagandizing our own military on grievous courses that are an abomination. I hope this helps clarify my position.
Also, please answer me this, Roy, or anyone else. Why would the world trust the word of governments who have lied and cheated and because of their dishonesty and greed, have blood on their hands – the blood of all the soldiers and Iraqi civilians who died in the name of Saddam’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that didn’t exist? I’ll never forget Dr. David Kelly’s testimony on British TV and his subsequent ‘suicide’ – the price an honest man pays for speaking the truth. Why would we trust any government that has lied repeatedly? I’d like to say, we won’t be fooled again, but this post says differently. I’m bloody crestfallen. There are wicked governments worldwide… we are governed by a wicked government. Who are the saints? Is our government fit to judge?
Again, I agree with you, although various chemical weapons were found after the Iraq invasion that seemed degraded, but usable, and were considered remnants of undeclared munitions scattered about that existed after Iraqi reports of all WMD’s being destroyed in 1991. They were subsequently destroyed after 2003. We are governed by a wicked government. The best we can do is attempt change through better elected representatives all the way to the top.
If Ukraine is a noble democracy that we must send our men to protect, why did Pres Zelensky shut down all the media that gave him bad coverage? Why did he have the opposition leaders imprisoned? Is it really a democracy or only a peek at what’s in store for us? We already have the political prisoners. We have the controlled press here calling the GOP traitors and worse.
There are no good guys in this thing…
FYI: The Chief UN Weapons Inspector (1991-1998) was a Marine Corps Captain, Scott Ritter, under my command as Portal Monitoring Commander in Votkinsk (1989-1990). He wrote a book detailing his search for WMDs. Iraq presumably destroyed all chemical weapons in 1991. Some degraded chemical weapons were discovered later scattered around the country including on a chicken farm along with yellow cake (enriched uranium) of a low grade found somewhere and the rudiments of technology for nuclear weapons found in a scientist’s backyard.
Is THAT what we went to war for in Iraq, Lieutenant-Colonel? Some broken-down chemical weapons parts, and some low-grade yellowcake uranium scattered on a chicken farm? Is THAT what our men died for?
No, they died because of some stupid Neocon pipedream about “regime change” and “nation-building” and “spreading democracy.”
And while we’re on the subject of weapons of mass destruction, what about those bio-war laboratories that we have constructed all over the Ukraine? Did we do it to help them grow sunflower seeds? How would you like it if the North Koreans had a bunch of germ warfare labs off the California coast?
Exactly, Joe! Beautiful and brilliant people killed in the name of ‘broken-down chemical weapons parts, and some low-grade yellowcake uranium scattered on a chicken farm’ – their legacy deserves better. I am crying out for it now. DOn’t trust your lying cheating government!
Susan, you are right on target again. Just look at the array of plutocratic one-world globalist ideologues who are demonizing Russia and Putin: the same leftist scum who rigged our 2020 election, who ferociously persecuted the protestors of January 6, who control the horrid WEF, who are pushing LGBT perversion everywhere, who have just turned Canada into a People’s Republic and police state, who have allowed a smug CDC and its toadies in the medical establishment to wreck thousands of lives and the world economy just for a goddamned flu virus, and who have doled out to us endless LIES, LIES, and LIES about everything for the last thirty years and more. And we’re now supposed to believe their deafening chorus of rage about how Putin is “the new Hitler”? Screw them! Lots of people are no longer buying their hypocritical Neocon propaganda.
I’m sorry about the Ukrainians and the war that is now upon them. I truly am. But they put themselves into the hands of Soros and his coterie of moral lepers, just so that they could have the chance to be a part of a totalitarian E.U. and a “woke” NATO. Now they must reap the whirlwind.
Joe, my heart bleeds for the innocent civilians of every war the corrupt governments peddle in order to line their pockets for a fine financial future for them at the expense of all those in the way… and that includes those who think the government is the answer to every prayer in spite of a history that screams the exact opposite. I am at a stage where I understand the machinations of the government. I understand all those who have financial investments in war. But, what about the ordinary folk? Why do they continue to back the heinous schemers when they know they’ve been lied to, again and again and again?
This is why:
https://rumble.com/vw8q9n-ukraine-and-russia-what-the-media-wants-you-to-think.html
Politics bollikins
The president
of the Ukraine
turns out was
an actor by trade
now regarded
quite the hero;
understandable really
not much of a
transition as he has
made Ukraine
a theatre of war
and that is not all,
he also used to be a
a stand-up comedian
well, what a shame
that diplomacy
and statesmanship
were not on the curriculum!
https://summit.news/2022/03/01/globalist-billionaire-bill-ackman-calls-for-u-s-military-intervention-in-ukraine/
Anyone who believes that the USA should intervene in the Ukraine / Russia conflict owes it to themselves to read the above link…
Anyone who thinks that the United States should militarily intervene in the Ukraine is a certifiable lunatic. Unfortunately, many such lunatics have governmental power in America right now.
Remembering Fylypovych: March 2, 2022
by Radice Lebewsu
Above the city, shines moon’s silver nib—a beak in space,
a stone-block beacon, grief and dreams, upon each freakin’ face.
It’s quite unusual, not noticed, in this century,
the black mute fields, wanderers of night’s dread venturing.
It’s quite unusual—Ukrainians against this might—
amidst this monitor and desk—this willingness to fight.
The ceilings disappear, the walls are crum-bl-ing apart,
like they weren’t anywhere at all…the cluttered roads so hard.
I hear the shouts, the cries of land, the evil fi-re-brands;
yet in the darkness, see the Sun and eagle rise up, grand.
These first thoughts fly upon the vetch, sunflowers in the blue;
but, o, these bloody days are very difficult to view.
THE RAPE OF THE UKRAINE
By Roy E. Peterson (March 3, 3033)
The rape of the Ukraine
is difficult to watch,
City devastations
leaving a blood red splotch.
It seems I have seen
such catastrophes before.
I saw it in the movies
that were made of war.
One million refugees
are fleeing for their lives.
Expect the count to double
if anyone survives.
Buildings blown to pieces
and railroad tracks are gone.
Cities without service.
How can they get along?
My heart is with the people
whose suffering is great.
They should have been left in peace
to a kinder fate.
Who will feed the hungry
in this sad time of needs?
Who will till the fields
planting wheat and sunflower seeds?
Don’t tell me of investors
Who were making doughs.
War like politics makes
for some strange bedfellows.
Don’t tell me of bribes
or things that were done wrong.
Just tell me of invaders
who do not belong.
So funny how the Democrats are pushing for Ukrainian nationalism, an armed Ukrainian citizenry, and secure Ukrainian borders. I wonder why we can’t have what they’re giving to Ukraine???
Could it be that Soros only wants that so he can take us down?
I put nothing past Soros!
I THANK ALL PARTICIPANTS
By Roy E. Peterson (March 3, 3033)
I thank all participants
Responding to precipitance
Of war that reared its ugly head
While Ukraine counts its sadly dead.
Read and weep of things you learned
While in Ukraine the streets are burned.
Points were scored in this debate
Elucidating Ukraine’s fate.
It matters less whose voice shall win.
Ukraine is paying for the sin.
The cognoscenti’s words ring true.
I hope that they’ve affected you.
The war of words is hurled in vain
While Ukraine suffers from the pain.
It’s like the ghost of Christmas future
Observing haggling over lucre.
The causes for the final breath
Compose the epitaph of death.
[I look forward to reading further contributions.]
Here is my contribution to sanity:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRQd5hctso
13 minutes of asking all the questions that we are not supposed to ask.
This is why the Deep State and the American left is doing everything in its power to take Tucker Carlson off the air. As someone has aptly said, “In a world ruled by lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Thank you!
I admire Tucker Carlson.
Great source.
March 3 in Ukraine
a man is weeping,
sobbing over the
sheet covered in blood
and purple flowers
a pale, waxy face
is all he can see
peeking from the hem
like when she was small
and pretending to
sleep under mom’s kiss
the man wipes his tears
from the dead girl’s face,
apologizing,
then weeping afresh
knowing his mumble
will never be heard
at least the body,
torn by senseless war,
is hidden from him;
a small, cold mercy
for a fractured man
who won’t sleep again
unless an empty
bottle lies with him
Said Putin to Xi: “This is fun;
Olympics in snow, not in sun.
And yes, I’ll refrain
from invading Ukraine
till the skiing and skating is done.”
Careful, Paul… no one is supposed to know that if you oppose Putin, you MUST also oppose Xi.
It’s satire, Mike. Nothing more.
Well said. Some news sources claimed something like that happened.
For My Russian Friend, Lena
She’s nothing – nothing in the news
A stain in prayers in Sunday pews
The victim of her leader’s views
The gifted poet poet’s use
To shame and blame and plain accuse…
Please walk a while in Lena’s shoes.
I have great sensitivity for Lena and those in her situation.