{"id":147,"date":"2022-10-10T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medusian.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2022-10-11T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T11:21:33","slug":"ukraine-october-10th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medusian.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine ~ October 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Multiple missile strikes have hit multiple targets across Ukraine, this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It’s horrific. I hope the death toll and the suffering is minimal; if I could choose\u2026 minimal would equate to zero. I’ve never lived in an active warzone but I have an active and empathic imagination and have seen sufficient images and videos of such places and the horror, pain and fear is perfectly clear. I heard and saw distant artillery firing and striking within Serbia from a restaurant roof in Szeged many years ago. That was close enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I see nothing joyous, or victorious, or gleeful, in the explosive force of military munitions in the midst of a human settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all needs to stop. As soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outrage, of course, has swiftly followed\u2026 from Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian government ‘spox,’ to various EU\/UK\/NATO\/US official and media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russians are ‘inhuman,’ ‘terrorists,’ ‘barbarians’ who must be shunned, sanctioned, and massacred by all democratic, freedom-loving, peaceful and law-abiding, virtuous, countries and people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia’s military action is an ‘unprovoked invasion’ and Russia’s incorporation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia into the Russian Federation is an ‘illegal annexation.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No-one is interested in a decade’s-worth of provocation and no-one is interested in the will or the desires of the civilian populations of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two days earlier, what appears to have been a truck bomb attack (or an unmanned seaborne drone… by Ukraine, according to US reports) on the Kerch Strait Bridge was undertaken in which six people were killed, including the truck driver (who does not seem to have been involved, even if it is concluded his truck exploded).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much like any Russian death (Moskva, anyone?) the gloating responses to the Kerch Bridge attack (from Zelenskyy, other Ukrainian government and EU\/UK\/NATO\/US official and media outlets) were marked with glee and ‘humour.’ As it was similarly in regard to the ‘sabotage’ of the Nordstream pipelines on September 28th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The double-standards and hypocrisy from ‘the collective west’ (AKA the ‘Rules-based World Order’ or ‘Free and Democratic International Community’) must be obvious to any rational observer. Surely. If not\u2026 wake up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s ex-comedian Zelenskyy making a weather joke about the Kerch Bridge attack…<\/p>\n\n\n\n