A Terrible, Terrible War

Books By Patti Liszkay
​Available On Amazon

​"Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
and the sequel, "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888
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​A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE WAR

       Today I received an early-morning call from my sister Romaine.

​      "What about what's happening in Ukraine?" she said.
      "Oh, it's terrible," I said. "Just...just...terrible."
      "It's so terrible," she said. "So terrible."
     And somehow those were the only words that either of us could find to say about the Russian invasion of Ukraine: That it was terrible. Just so terrible.   
       In the early hours on this day, February 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin shattered the peace of Europe,  

​...when his rockets and bombs rained down on Ukraine and his military attacked that country from the north, south, and east.

​       And now men, women, and children are going to suffer. Terribly.

      And the rest of us all around the world are not isolated from this war on Ukraine. Because Russia can weaponize its energy supply. Russia's actions can hurt our economies, can raise the prices and availability of our gas and our goods and can cause a rise in already high inflation. Russian hackers might attack global energy grids and/or wage a cyber world war. Vladimir Putin could launch nuclear weapons and not only wreak apocalyptic destruction but cause the release of nuclear fallout that travels on air currents around this globe that we all must share.
         For all the discourse, analyses, opinions, commentaries, and everything else that will be said about the war that the tyrant and would-be emperor Vladimir Putin has plunged our planet into, the truest words can be found in a text from Alexyey Navalny, Putin's political opponent who now writes from a Russian prison cell:

        His words, I believe are the truest. And so are the early morning words of my sister and I: This is going to be a terrible, terrible war.