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Goddammit, it's just not right. I know we (the west) do a lot already to help Ukraine. But honestly we need to do more. Ukrainians are fighting for their right to merely exist!!
The Ukrainians do not deserve this, and we need to do everything we can to stop Russia. They are doing harm all over the world, and if the Russian federation collapses from losing the war, we get rid of Russia undermining everything everywhere else.
Slava Ukraini
the last two years have made it abundantly clear that in the battle of good, evil, and indifference, the indifferent are by far the largest faction. in many ways, they also do not truly differentiate themselves from the forces of evil given that they will stand idly by allowing the forces of evil to torture the forces of good. they'll provide aid to either side and justify it as good, when the only real benefit is monetary in value.
i find it so telling that america has drug its feet sending Ukraine outdated aircraft we no longer use, and immediately sent israel our very most advanced weapons systems. i find it so telling that aiding a genocide against brown people is higher priority than preventing a genocide against white people. i find it so telling that what morally should have been a blowout victory of an election for the lesser of two evils was a narrow victory for the greater of two evils with most of us sitting at home idly watching.
it makes me deeply sad for my Ukrainian friends that the most aid we have to offer is thoughts and prayers. i am hurt to have to welcome them, as a bisexual survivor of a mass shooting enacted as an incel terrorist attack, to my daily pain of nothing ever getting done. but there is one thing that above all else i refuse to do: give in to indifference. globally, the noose is tightening around our collective necks. our choices from here are to conduct ourselves like if we don't do everything in our power to win our freedom from this terror the world will end, or to allow the world to end.
these, put simply, are my beliefs. i believe we can all be free. i believe that saving the world from this collapse and building something new is possible and necessary. i believe the love i have for my sisters, cousins, and brothers internationally is real and worth acting on. i believe that an international uprising of hope with the aim of everlasting peace is possible, and it will start in our homes. love for someone across the world can be expressed by giving someone here some soup.
edit: i accidentally undercut my message by flipping america's priorities when it comes to genocide
Absolutely, I can understand indifference when it's hard to tell who is the evil part. But in the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine there is zero doubt for anyone with a shred of humanity left, who is the evil part.
Ukraine did NOTHING to deserve this, on the contrary they gave up their nukes in hopes they could live in peace!!!
The only lesson any Russian state can take from this when the Russian federation collapses is to under NO CIRCUMSTANCES give up your nukes!
The Ukrainian president is thought to have been compelled to make the admission after incoming US President-elect Donald Trump wrote on social media that Ukraine had "ridiculously lost" 400,000 soldiers, while close to 600,000 Russians had been killed or wounded. Trump did not state where these figures were from.
Putins lapdog is undermining Ukraine once again. It's fucked up that this guy is not even in office and already leaking classified information.
Slava Ukraini
Heroiam slava
an entire university town. and the right age for that comparison, too. anyone who's familiar with university towns, imagine if every single person there over the course of 3 years was killed defending their right to exist from a regime of hatred. imagine if you went to state college Pennsylvania, and it was nothing but dust, rubble, and bodies. this is the horror Ukrainians are being subjected to everyday. we need to be doing everything we can to support them and to resist russian terror. and it's a selfish form of solidarity i'm calling for, too. support Ukrainians from a place of love because they are sisters, brothers, and cousins to us, but also support them because if russia succeeds in there aims of crushing the notion that someone can stand against russian terror, they won't stop until they control the entire world through fear.
we live in a global system of terror. you are in this fight, no matter where you are because the things our governments enact and allow abroad are things they'll enact and allow here if it benefits them. they have before, and they will again, if allowed.
