jackhutton on Nostr: “.. in the forest outside Lyman, these freshly dead Russian men, with their ...
“.. in the forest outside Lyman, these freshly dead Russian men, with their civilian backpacks containing their meager possessions, with their sleeping bags and pouches of fever and pain medication, were no longer anonymous and generic invaders. I looked at their faces and felt anger. What had they died for? Putin’s megalomania? The wounded pride of old men whose empire collapsed in 1991, just as they were supposed to inherit it? The Russian idea, whatever that may be?”
#ukraine #russia
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