Week 8 - Oregon City, Oregon - February 21- February 27, 2022
This has been quite a week --because Russia has invaded Ukraine. It's hard to believe that a member of the United Nations (with it's ambassador being the president of the UN Security council), would so blatantly invade another UN member country. There will be books written about this....but here we are.
Ukraine has done very well with warding off the Russians; probably better than anyone thought they would. The Ukraine ambassador to the UN has been eloquent.
At an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York Wednesday night, Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya held up his smartphone and shook it toward his Russian counterpart, demanding he put an end the invasion right then and there.
"Call Putin, call [Russian Foreign Minister Sergey] Lavrov to stop aggression," Kyslytsya implored in his speech fully in English. And at the end of his address, he warned: "There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell, Ambassador."
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/
In a speech a day later the Ukraine ambassador ended by asking for a moment of silence to remember "those who have recently died....those who may die....and, I suggest, to the Russian Ambassador that he pray for redemption".
The whole mess is a bit frightening because Putin has put his determent (nuclear weapons) on standby - - and the thus the unspeakable may actually happen to us.
Photo on tic-tok showing Russians demonstrating - at the risk of going to jail.
It was super cold this week - in the 20's and 30's, which would be a joke in Kazakhstan. Spring, however, keeps coming
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Holland went to the dentist, and I went along to help wrangle little kids.
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