Saturday, November 19, 2022

Where is the non-military aid to Ukraine?

 I read stories about American military aid to Ukraine, but so far no stories about non-military aid.  At the moment Ukraine is facing winter with half its power-producing infrastructure out of commission because of Russian missile attacks.  Why isn't America responding?

The US saved a starving Berlin with around the clock airlifts of food when the Soviets blockaded the city after World War II.  The geopolitical situation is different, but in essence, the real situation is not so different: Ukraine needs help.  They need to quickly repair lots of infrastructure, and in the meantime, they need the means for their population to not freeze, and to maintain health and safety with working water and sewage systems (which require electricity.)  

Why aren't we hearing about humanitarian aid to a country suffering from war crimes?  From the bombing of civilian infrastructure with no other purpose than to make people suffer, to deny them the means of life? This isn't the case of insurmountable problems in a remote country. We're openly providing military aid to Ukraine.  Where is the non-military aid when they need it?

Where is Europe, where is America?  Where are the stories about how they are helping? 

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Thoreau for the Day


 "In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line."

Thoreau

Walden: "Economy"

Monday, November 14, 2022

Fall Wind


 Pods of summer crowd around the door;
 I take them in the autumn of my hands.

 Last night I heard the first cold wind outside;
 the wind blew soft, and yet I shiver twice:

 Once for thin walls, once for the sound of time.

 --William Stafford