In surgery, it all comes down to whether to do surgery or not. There can be all kinds of circumstances that have an influence on this decision, but in the end, the decision is to do an operation or not. The situation in the illegal war of russia against Ukraine, is actually not very different. Do you want russia to win or not?

My last post didn´t age well, to put it mildly. Russia renewed its war against Ukraine and started a big invasion on the 24th of February. Putin had everything he wanted. President for life. Money like water. He threw it all away, and now he will probably enter history as the president who drove Russia in complete isolation and economic misery. Unfortunately history repeats, and the Ukrainians are paying the price.

This picture shows the colors of the Ukrainian flag; the upper half is blue, the lower half is yellow. Ukraine is an agricultural country, so it is easy to see the blue sky above a yellow field of wheat. The combination of blue and yellow as a symbol of Ukrainian lands comes from the flag of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia used in the 12th century.

Ukraine’s history has been stormy, to put it mildly, and Freedom has always been a scarce thing. Ukraine means borderland, and throughout history, this has been an appropriate name. Ukraine has been at war with Russia for eight years. The USA and Western Europe tend to forget that. All this time, this has attracted ample attention from Western media or politicians. So what has changed? Why the sudden attention to this conflict?