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I don't know why I feel such an affinity for Ukraine, but I always have. Of course, in the current conflict it's easy to pick the victim over the bully. I just wish there was more that could be done without instigating a wider war. I can only hope that the pluckiness of the Ukrainian defenders and the pain of the economic sanctions will convince Putin to declare victory and withdraw.
Last week I was talking to my high school level students. In the 17 years they have been alive, we have experienced a major economic collapse that came close to a global depression, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan followed by a tsunami that killed thousands and a nuclear meltdown, a once-in-a-century global pandemic, and now the first invasion of a sovereign country in Europe since WWII. Talk about growing up in interesting times!
235 of 365
I don't know why I feel such an affinity for Ukraine, but I always have. Of course, in the current conflict it's easy to pick the victim over the bully. I just wish there was more that could be done without instigating a wider war. I can only hope that the pluckiness of the Ukrainian defenders and the pain of the economic sanctions will convince Putin to declare victory and withdraw.
Last week I was talking to my high school level students. In the 17 years they have been alive, we have experienced a major economic collapse that came close to a global depression, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan followed by a tsunami that killed thousands and a nuclear meltdown, a once-in-a-century global pandemic, and now the first invasion of a sovereign country in Europe since WWII. Talk about growing up in interesting times!