Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I was a young teenager when Chekoslovakia was invaded, and people kept hoping someone would stop Russia. Now the Ukraine. No one will stop them now either. There is posturing, but nothing more. I am so sorry for those people who will suffer and die. It seems calculated that Putin would act aggressively while the world reels from a pandemic, and the state of panic and chaos is widespread. He has been encouraged by Trump as well, as though the deception perpertrated during our last election proved to Putin that he could get away with anything. He has chosen a time when Americans are relieved to be out of Afganistan, and weary, and feel hopeless about defending people in other countries. We didn't manage to help in Syria, and the Arab Spring is long dissolved. We've lost faith in ourselves and we bicker about who and what we represent as a nation. Putin has read us well.