Its a very human story. You cannot but have respect for a widow from a family of military tradition.
Ukraine is less a country than a state of mind. It has what is called in Canada the two solitudes.
Its a bilingual country and needs to embrace its past and its dual heritage.
If Ukrainian nationalists insist on having it their way, they may be left with half a country and they’ve already lost, it appears, the Crimea.
“If Ukrainian nationalists insist on having it their way, they may be left with half a country and they’ve already lost, it appears, the Crimea.”
Half a country is better than no country.
We should respect any military wearing the uniform of their country. Less so a military wearing no identifying marks as was seen now invading the Crimea.
The Sovs do not deserve to be respected. They are an artificial pseudo-ethnic product of artificial selection of 1917-1991 that poison the land they step on.