We don’t want our words to become a war-cry, an imperfect substitute for a clenched fist. So, we use maps and videos.
We should resist the urge to strip off all our illusions and present the first wave of the enemy’s latest air assault too confidently. Otherwise our imagination will have no little red arrows to add for the next wave.
The psychological process — anticipation of disaster — set into motion when sirens start wailing is fairly routine.. No one is interested in divining the enemy’s motives for the attack. Anger introduces order to our muddled thoughts and releases us from the obligation to analyze anything. This allows us to let rid of the self-deception that anything really depends on how we feel about the two pieces of wet apple pie we had for breakfast.
It might look like the guy in this pick-up truck somewhere in Zakarpattia shot down a Kh-101 cruise missile with a machine gun. But actually no. The missile was overtaken by a missile from an air defense system. The man in the truck celebrated the intercept.
Ivan was among the Reuters journalists injured in Kramatorsk on Saturday. I bumped into his former sidekick Gosha last week on Reiterska. The late Max Levin helped document their escape from almost certain death during the battle of Illovaisk in 2014.