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Chris:  I miss you very much now you know how I feel. You said you would always be there with all my health issues I miss talking to you very much.

Yes, the truth about the: Yes, the truth about the situation in Ukraine is much, much more complex than we're being told by our corporate-state merged television and print media. The coup in 2014 was so brushed-over in western media, particular in North America, that most people have no idea it happened, nor that it was all caused by the sudden ability to tap into previously unreachable natural gas deposits in Ukraine. Instantly, the US and NATO tried to move in from one end, and the Russians from the other. That's what this is about, as much as anything. It has nothing to do with caring about the lives of Ukrainians, who have been pawns in this game, even from their own government, which is entirely corrupted like virtually every other government in the world.

When pale-skinned Europeans are attacked it's suddenly WW3: Or so the news would have us believe, if we sit there and listen.   But not pale-skinned Asians, of course. We can dehumanize and starve those people. So it's not even a skin-color thing. It's a matter of playing on Eurocentricism to maintain and advance the monetary order.   Russia has fought several wars with surrounding countries since the end of the Soviet Union. None have led to an empire even close to the size of the old Soviet Empire, the British Empire, or the current American Empire. It's gonna come and pass, how ever tragic the events, if we can avoid further fanning the flames. That seems to be the biggest problem, right now.   Next to no one seemed to think it was WW3 when we started the War of Terror (not a typo), even though that actually involved invading 7 countries simultaneously at it's peak point. Perhaps because our media lied to us in the same way the Russian media lies to it's people. Now we're getting the other side of the story - and only the other side of the story - because it's convienent to the US and NATO. And no one thought it was WW3 when Saudi Arabia began a genocide in Yemen (still ongoing, like our wars in the Middle East and Northern Africa), either. A lot more weapons have been used and people have died in those invasions.   Maybe, combined, this is all one giant ongoing war we might be able to call a World War, when he look back on this, someday. As with other World War's, a global war for increased power of the super wealthy "elite". But, if we someday do dub it a World War, the starting date will be 2001, when we invaded Afghanistan, not 2022. Or, it might be in the late 90's, when we started moving NATO into territories that we promised the Russians we wouldn't (11 countries since the 90's, breaking the Cold War-ending pact).   You see, we have to look at both sides of the story. Everyone is wrong. Everyone.   Your heart, as is passionatedly displayed in this song, is in the right place. You don't want to see people suffer and die. Kudos to you, for that, for sure. But I encourage you to ask yourself why you haven't felt as inspired to write this passionatedly and frequently about Yemen, Syria, or any other country attacked by the US and it's allies in the last 20 years, such as Libya (which now has open child slave markets after we destroyed the country and left it in ashes). Read up on those places and you'll find out that the death, destruction, disease and starvation, as well as the collapse of civilization within those countries has been much, much worse as a result of our meddling.

Powerful War Images: Lynching, drawing and quartering, Jean D'Arc syndrome, beheadings, every other scene in game of thrones. Public sees it (is conditioned) to see supreme violence as entertainment: rape and murder and burning. Bombing is an extension, death by pain is viewed x-rated torture. Inured or direly affected by images vary. Our children and theirs will be heirs to all of it. Hunger, human migration, purges, mass slaughter, genocides: virtully what we see and have seen on steroids. May we never see nuclear launches. . Peace? When was that?  Somewhere on Earth, someone is murdering someone else, singly or en masse all the time, every minute. In the mythology, god threw satan out of paradise and it was on! or humans are heiarchial and have to be best, biggest, baddest. Civilizations get too big, too powerful and then crumble internally or by those jealous or loathing their dominance. See Egypt, France, Germany, Macedonia, Aztec Civilization. Rome et al. The Crusades were no picnic.. Enter Russia and an EGO. Breast beating bully trying to scare bigger badder bullies. (EU, usa). Have you seen the usa drone that delivers 50#'s of explodive to destroy, well anything it wants directed by a soldier to avoid civvies? WMDs. That weapon, care of the Pentagon, is in $800 million package for Ukraine. . I am tired of disputes over land, olden scores, and mineral wealth. (See end of movie, Three Days of the Comdor,  Max Von Sidow and Bobby Redford. "They'll just want us to get it for 'em.") Talk about powerful images: most recent tech wars, pix hirishims nagasaki and Nam and vampire books and movies -  Peace? No. Wars, like poverty, gonna always with us. . Lady A .  

We Watch: . We watch Own  no yardstick to measure future's goals. The Amazon has dry skin, fire and sere waves rise. A child wails in Somalia. . Big pictured, we raise tariff levels, cut off cash flow, back danger into an  empty corner. . Men cry for losses and charge, gun held close. World warms up silos and run end of homo sapiens drills. . Lady A .

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