Ukraine's Flag
Flickr - no place for politics, most likely is the case. But this is not to do with politics, this is to do with international morality.
Or in this case, immorality on a belief-beggaring scale.
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The immorality of using overwhelming military capability to steal a neighbour's country is so far off the charts in the stakes of evil behaviour that it has disgusted the world - except, it seems - for China.
Whose own internal morality seems to have far more to do with saving the CCP's face than anything else.
Clearly I'm only one powerless pensioner in Scotand who can do little except make futile gestures such as show this simple flag as a speck of moral support for the marvellously gutsy and strong people of Ukraine who are currently fighting with all they can use to fend off a massive bully based in Moscow.
Which latter has stupidly shown itself to be no better than the axis-aggressors who tore the world apart twice in the previous century.
In 1941, Russia was on the receiving end of Germany's (operation Barbarossa) uncontrolled lust for expansionism.
Yet here we are, regardless of history's lessons.
Insanely, it's happening again, with a different bully whose roots can be traced back to the old ways of Stalinism's worst aspects. And the Western world looks on and - equivocates.
Ukraine's Flag
Flickr - no place for politics, most likely is the case. But this is not to do with politics, this is to do with international morality.
Or in this case, immorality on a belief-beggaring scale.
.
The immorality of using overwhelming military capability to steal a neighbour's country is so far off the charts in the stakes of evil behaviour that it has disgusted the world - except, it seems - for China.
Whose own internal morality seems to have far more to do with saving the CCP's face than anything else.
Clearly I'm only one powerless pensioner in Scotand who can do little except make futile gestures such as show this simple flag as a speck of moral support for the marvellously gutsy and strong people of Ukraine who are currently fighting with all they can use to fend off a massive bully based in Moscow.
Which latter has stupidly shown itself to be no better than the axis-aggressors who tore the world apart twice in the previous century.
In 1941, Russia was on the receiving end of Germany's (operation Barbarossa) uncontrolled lust for expansionism.
Yet here we are, regardless of history's lessons.
Insanely, it's happening again, with a different bully whose roots can be traced back to the old ways of Stalinism's worst aspects. And the Western world looks on and - equivocates.