You may be underestimating the determination of Europe and the US to avoid fighting Russia whilst providing, kind of, what it takes to stop Putin. Complaining doesn't win hearts and minds, despite the validity of your complaint. Australia had 2 referendums during WW1 to ask, 'should we have conscription'? Both times the answer was no, but that war didn't involve the invasion of Australian territory. Somehow, Ukraine needs to sort who is fighting and who isn't and why that is so. This has to happen sooner rather than later.
i agree. unhappy with how z as supreme commander-in-chief has (not) addressed this issue. everyone's circumstance is different and i am the last person to cast judgement on who should be contributing to the war effort, how, fighting with a gun in his/her hands, and who is not. for the first half of the 11-year war, the bunch in power today in ukraine was, er, conspicuously absent. many were on the wrong team during the orange revolution and revolution of dignity. z was elected because because campaigned on the promise of ending the war by "stopping the shooting." even now only those who are not in actual contact with or bereaved relation to its heartbreaking wreckage can think sanely about it, or endure to hear others discuss it coolly. it's a tough one. i enlisted at the tender age 17 and spent almost six years wearing a pickle suit. the experience prob warped me. ukrainians are willing to put up with political incompetence but have increasingly low tolerance for political arrogance and injustice. so z needs to get his act together fast
In a non-judgmental way, the political class promised and then lied post electorally. We have the same problem down here. Nice to have a connection that's not about the war. PTSD? and I gotta ask, what's a pickle suit?
Oh I thought it may have been some weird NBCD suit, no not a gimp thing. How does one change government in the middle of a war? Usually, that's seen as a question that is a bit, as we say in Australia, "risky biscuit".
You may be underestimating the determination of Europe and the US to avoid fighting Russia whilst providing, kind of, what it takes to stop Putin. Complaining doesn't win hearts and minds, despite the validity of your complaint. Australia had 2 referendums during WW1 to ask, 'should we have conscription'? Both times the answer was no, but that war didn't involve the invasion of Australian territory. Somehow, Ukraine needs to sort who is fighting and who isn't and why that is so. This has to happen sooner rather than later.
i agree. unhappy with how z as supreme commander-in-chief has (not) addressed this issue. everyone's circumstance is different and i am the last person to cast judgement on who should be contributing to the war effort, how, fighting with a gun in his/her hands, and who is not. for the first half of the 11-year war, the bunch in power today in ukraine was, er, conspicuously absent. many were on the wrong team during the orange revolution and revolution of dignity. z was elected because because campaigned on the promise of ending the war by "stopping the shooting." even now only those who are not in actual contact with or bereaved relation to its heartbreaking wreckage can think sanely about it, or endure to hear others discuss it coolly. it's a tough one. i enlisted at the tender age 17 and spent almost six years wearing a pickle suit. the experience prob warped me. ukrainians are willing to put up with political incompetence but have increasingly low tolerance for political arrogance and injustice. so z needs to get his act together fast
In a non-judgmental way, the political class promised and then lied post electorally. We have the same problem down here. Nice to have a connection that's not about the war. PTSD? and I gotta ask, what's a pickle suit?
army fatigues
Oh I thought it may have been some weird NBCD suit, no not a gimp thing. How does one change government in the middle of a war? Usually, that's seen as a question that is a bit, as we say in Australia, "risky biscuit".