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The Situation: A View From Kyiv (www.lawfaremedia.org)
submitted 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/politics@lemmy.world
 

...understanding America’s political self-immolation is impossible even when it’s one’s full-time job, and it all moves so fast all the time on the way to getting nowhere—ever.

And who has time for that when one’s power is out and one has no heat and when it’s really cold, and when there are air raids—multiple times per day—that one has to decide whether to take shelter from or to ignore? And who has time for that when it’s another country’s internal affairs and one has so little ability to affect it anyway? And who has time for that when it’s the ultimate moving target and nothing Trump says today, positive or negative, will govern tomorrow?

And let’s face it, it’s all so profoundly dumb.

There is something humbling—one might even say humiliating—about showing one’s face in a country whose problems are mostly externally inflicted and which struggles daily in a military sense to defend its right to determine its own fate, coming from a country which indisputably holds its own fate in its own hands yet which inflicts needless harms upon itself seemingly for fun.

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[–] RainbowHedgehog@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I remember being so motivated after that disastrous meeting Trump had with Zelenskyy. Where Trump tried to extort him for minerals and broadcast it on Russian State TV.

I worked on the Mayday Movement. I really thought we could make something like Euromaidan. I thought it would be easier to general strike if we lived in an encampment.

It fell though. Not many people came. Then I focused on 50501 instead. I had to keep moving forward doing something.