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Cold cold war
Author: Raine
Date: 02/28/2022 14:03:17
I stand with Ukraine.
GenX-er here. You've seen the memes. We grew up with the cold war. One thing I have to admit, I grew up numb to it. I, unfortunately, had the unconscious feeling the 'It couldn't happen here' -- that is kinda how we were brought us as we had the privilege to be born in the United States. The cold war provided nothing more than an abstract idea of a hot war. The rhetoric from the Reagan era was so loud that it just became noise for me and many like me.
It can happen here just as it is happening there. I don't know what the off-ramp is here. The head of Russia is a mad man in a corner.
That's it, that is the blog. I have too many things in my head causing the noise. Unfortunately, it's not cold noise.
& 
Raine
GenX-er here. You've seen the memes. We grew up with the cold war. One thing I have to admit, I grew up numb to it. I, unfortunately, had the unconscious feeling the 'It couldn't happen here' -- that is kinda how we were brought us as we had the privilege to be born in the United States. The cold war provided nothing more than an abstract idea of a hot war. The rhetoric from the Reagan era was so loud that it just became noise for me and many like me.
It can happen here just as it is happening there. I don't know what the off-ramp is here. The head of Russia is a mad man in a corner.
That's it, that is the blog. I have too many things in my head causing the noise. Unfortunately, it's not cold noise.
& Raine
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Comment by 
wickedpam on 02/28/2022 14:27:36
wickedpam on 02/28/2022 14:27:36
Morning 
Right there with ya, didn't really have anything else to compare it to at the time - it just kinda was.
Right there with ya, didn't really have anything else to compare it to at the time - it just kinda was.
Comment by 
Will in Chicago on 02/28/2022 14:29:29
Will in Chicago on 02/28/2022 14:29:29
Good morning, bloggers!!!!
My hope is that negotiations and international pressure can bring an end to the war in Ukraine. However, we have to admit that this war has shown how closely the world has become interconnected.
The people of Ukraine need our support. We should also support those brave Russians who are rejecting the war and Putin. They are facing arrest and imprisonment.
My hope is that negotiations and international pressure can bring an end to the war in Ukraine. However, we have to admit that this war has shown how closely the world has become interconnected.
The people of Ukraine need our support. We should also support those brave Russians who are rejecting the war and Putin. They are facing arrest and imprisonment.
Comment by 
Raine on 02/28/2022 14:44:43
It's kinda like when you grow up with abuse, you don't know what abuse is.
Does that make sense?
Raine on 02/28/2022 14:44:43
Quote by wickedpam:
Morning
Right there with ya, didn't really have anything else to compare it to at the time - it just kinda was.
Does that make sense?
Comment by wickedpam on 02/28/2022 14:50:58
Total
wickedpam on 02/28/2022 14:50:58
Quote by Raine:It's kinda like when you grow up with abuse, you don't know what abuse is.Quote by wickedpam:
Morning
Right there with ya, didn't really have anything else to compare it to at the time - it just kinda was.
Does that make sense?
Total
Comment by Raine on 02/28/2022 15:01:15
Raine on 02/28/2022 15:01:15
Hero.
A Ukrainian sailor has been arrested in Mallorca and faces charges of attempting to sink a yacht owned by Alexander Mikheev, the CEO of the Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport and former head of the Russian helicopter federation. The boat is moored in the harbour of Port Adriano.
The unnamed man, who has been employed for the past 10 years as a mechanic on the Lady Anastasia, Mikheev’s 48-metre, £5m yacht, said he felt he had to do something after seeing footage of a Russian rocket attack on a block of flats in Kyiv, his home town. The defendant told the judge that he believed the rocket had been manufactured by Mikheev’s company.
Once on board the vessel he told the crew members, most of whom are also Ukrainians, to abandon ship. He allegedly then went to the engine room and opened a large valve in an attempt to sink the yacht. The crew members, aided by port staff, intervened to prevent the sinking.
Comment by Raine on 02/28/2022 15:03:41
Raine on 02/28/2022 15:03:41
#UPDATE "US citizens should consider departing Russia immediately via commercial options still available," said the State Department, which had previously urged US citizens not to travel to Russia.
Comment by Raine on 02/28/2022 19:31:35
Raine on 02/28/2022 19:31:35
This really hadn't occurred to me that the USSR was part of the Permanent Sec Council.
Even if it is a technicality, this is incredible.
Even if it is a technicality, this is incredible.
Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN General Assembly asking which country “voted for Russia [a newly formed country] to be admitted to the UN” after the breakup of the Soviet Union
— Pete (@NYBackpacker) February 28, 2022
No one in the Assembly raises their hands
Incredible moment in the UN. #UnitedNations #UN pic.twitter.com/5sDsh4BJo7