Tag Archives: ukraine

Ukraine and God

Posted on June 29, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing a Ukrainian essay which I found highly moving but also a lesson of how war can push you to your God, rather than push your belief away.

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aggression, beliefs, cruelty, faith, feeling alone, God, grief, hate, injustice, loss, love, pain, peace, sovereign state, suffering, ukraine, war | Leave a comment

It is sad, but true. The Gulag horrors are being expanded in Russia. Innocent civilians from Ukraine are suffering there. Out of our sight, out of reach from their suffering families. Pain radiates out from their locations and maybe you … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged conflict, deportation, detention centres, Gulag, human rights, immigration hubs, innocent civilians, lawless behaviour, Pope Leo XIV, prisons, psychopathic behaviour, Russia, torture, ukraine, unsafe passage, war | Leave a comment

Apartheid to Genocide?

Posted on May 11, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing the moving speech of Susan Abulhawa: https://peaceandplanetnews.org/susan-abulhawas-powerful-address-at-the-oxford-union/ by Susan Abulhawa | Fall 2024 Edition Remarks at the Oxford Union debate In a profoundly moving and meticulously crafted address, Palestinian author and human rights activist Susan Abulhawa captivated the Oxford Union … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged apartheid, collective punishment, genocide, grief, hatred, Jews, land grab, Palestine, Poland, protests by American Jews, theft, tragedy, ukraine, violence | Leave a comment

Survivors who lived in a large land mass

Posted on April 26, 2025 by borderslynn

Since the US is now running a tarrif trade war, mostly targeting China, it has been said that Xi told his people “eat bitterness” and that was interpreted as “absorb the pain”. It is well known, throughout the 5000 year … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1930s to 1940s, 2014 to present day, children, Gulag, law against 'others', Memorial (Russian civil rights group), orphans, Russia, Soviet Russia, Stalin, survival, trauma, ukraine, war | Leave a comment

Globalisation and Gangsterism

Posted on April 2, 2025 by borderslynn

The post-Second World War order began to crumble in the first half of the 1980s. Its dissolution followed no obvious pattern, occurring instead as a series of seemingly disparate events: the spectacular rise of the Japanese car industry; communist Hungary’s … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, austerity, bratva, corruption, crypto currencies, digital financial systems, Europe, global trade, globalisation, maltreated, money laundering, organised crime, permeating all levels of society, post WW2, power, Putin, Russia, Soviet Union, starvation, tariffs, The Vory, ukraine, United Kingdom | Leave a comment

Follow the Oil Pipelines

Posted on March 24, 2025 by borderslynn

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans have never achieved parity with West German wealth generation. Disgruntled East Germans have raised the profile of right wing AfD political beliefs. Initially, the AfD distanced itself from far-right parties in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged AfD, climate change, dependency, fossil fuels, gas, germany, negotiations, oil, pipelines, power, refineries for sale, right wing, Russia, ukraine, war machine | Leave a comment

Chekov’s Gun

Posted on March 24, 2025 by borderslynn

Another great book I’m reading, which helps me stay sane amongst the lies and false statements flying around social media, is Bob Woodward ‘s book, ‘War’. At the stirrings of the Ukrainian invasion, Woodward reported in his book: “Chekhov’s gun” … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 21st century, autocrats, Biden, Democrats, expansionism, lawful, lawless, NATO, Putin, Russia, Trump, ukraine, US, world leaders | Leave a comment

Keeping tabs on where the money went (Ukraine)

Posted on February 26, 2025 by borderslynn

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/ You can’t make it up! Also see Statista, chart of percentage of Gross National Product by country: https://www.statista.com/ Weapons of war have been designed and manufactured by the US since Eisenhower, after WW2. But he warned, in his final … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1948, allies, balance if power, cost of war, Eisenhower, enemies, Europe, israel, military industrial complex, percentage of GDP, quid pro quo, Russia, sovereign country, tracking costs, transactions, ukraine, USA, weapons supplied | Leave a comment

Captagon

Posted on January 14, 2025 by borderslynn

After Assad fled, one news item stayed in my head. A warehouse filled to the ceiling with the drug, Captagon. The comment was that this was the favourite drug of Jihadists. So today I found out more, reading this link: … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Assad, brain damage, Brutality, butchery, cannabis, captagon, drug fuelled barbarism, drug money laundering industry, drugs, Hamas, human killing machines, India, ISIS, israel, jihadists, ketamine, Lebanon, Maronites, massacres, Nigeria, opioids, Palestinian refugees, Phalanges, Pharma, religious factions, RSF, Russia, Sahel, sudan, Syria, UK, ukraine, Wagner, war crimes, West Africa, youth addiction | Leave a comment

The Human Meteorite

Posted on November 18, 2023 by borderslynn

Back in 2010, this article about Sudan explained the different viewpoints of nomadic herders and Arab farmers, their belief systems about land use brought them into conflict. Of the five mass extinctions we described in Chapter 2, probably the most … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africans, Anthropocene theory, arabs, climate change, conflict, Darfur, diamonds, drought, egypt, elites, farmers, fertile land, fresh water, genocide, human harm, human sabotage, impact of human activity, Iran, mining, nomads, proxy wars, Russia, UAE, ukraine, Wagner, war crimes | Leave a comment