RantWoman feels no leading to summarize every point in these videos.
There are frank points both about history and about current realities.
RantWoman does not actually care whether some Friends want just to have a cease fire now or consider it unQuakerly to have opinions about air defense systems: RantWoman considers it important to hold the voices of the people and nations involved.
The situation in Russia and Ukraine is dire and disgusting. TheRussians are playing with fire about the Zaporizhie Nuclear Power Plant, the bodies of water that cool it. They are also "evacuating" Ukrainians from some areas their troops are pulling out of.
Russia seems to be sending lots of drones. Ukrainian air defenses have been upgraded with foreign help to deal with almost all of the drone attacks, but drones that get through still do damage.
Commentators talk about how Soviet Ukraine actually took way more casualties than Russia during WWII.
There are forms of vigorous resistance both in Russia and among people sent to fight, as well as in some former parts of the former Soviet Union.
And Putin in his vile Trumpian style (who is imitating who) made the Victory Day celebration all about himself and the need to stamp out the "Nazis" in Ukraine and not even about WWII victory and heroic veterans.
Putin is not incorrect: the words "regime change" and "national collapse" come from many directions. RantWoman does not consider it in vain to talk about a path to healing, but getting onto such a path is going to be very bumpy.
If things were not so deadly, it would be really good soap opera.
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