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We are talking today about how we are dealing with the war in Ukraine, after two years, desperately looking around for reasons for optimism, which are increasingly difficult to find not only on the Ukrainian front, but also in America or Europe. Then, with all the embarrassment and severity, we talk about our nasty Facebook wars and the offensive for and against Erica Isaac’s “whore” who has divided the world into Seventh Day Feminists and toxic Groomsmen.

Two years of war in Ukraine and the worst fatigue

At dawn on February 24, two years ago, I woke up to the news that the Russians had indeed invaded Ukraine. Fortunately for me and many millions of other people in Europe, it wasn’t Russian missiles and tanks that woke us up, just an avalanche of news and alerts.

It was probably the most publicized war in modern history. A week before the invasion, I wrote about the highly unusual strategy of major Western allies to aggressively release all intelligence gathered from Russia, which was massing its massive forces on the border with Ukraine. They have been shouting “war is starting” for several months now. When it actually started, it seemed just as incredible.

I admit that I was among those who initially believed that an aggressive step of this scale has no rational, military sense, and that this is yet another demonstration of power, to which Putin has already accustomed us. I even remember knowledgeable people close to the leading circles of Kyiv who thought the same.

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