Ukraine Our Thoughts are With You

UKRAINE - We have been following events as most of you are.

Wars cost money and following this conflict will be economic hardship both in Ukraine and Russia. There can be no victory for the ordinary people. Unemployment, economic hardship and misery will be the only winners.

It breaks our hearts to see what is happening in Ukraine. The great irony is that it is pulling people together in the western world. For a change,

Putin has united people. 'Sandwich gate' and Boris Johnson has been all but forgotten in the face of far less important matters. How fast things can change in the political world. 

We wish Ukraine all the best, which seems completely hollow.  What can we do? This is not our argument and to get involved could trigger a nuclear exchange. Putin though has a problem. Like Ghaddafi and Saddam Hussain, he has made himself a target and his country a pariah state. In time he will be delt with unless the Russian people do it first. 

Ukraine was far from perfect with lots of corruption in government. All that is forgotten. So often the reverse effect is obtained by people’s actions.  Putin has badly miscalculated. Julius Caesar met a violent end doing he same thing. Tyrants who rule by fear rarely die of old age.

Ukraine is in our thoughts. They are far from beaten. We must keep helping them every way we can.

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