Ukraine Starting Over

Ukraine appears to have flown through the eye of the economic needle in recent restructuring of it's debt, and maybe there are signs that not only "all will be well" but that "things could be terrific " in their markets, but it takes an investor with a stomach for stress While people ask "how are they doing?" they aren't asking "how are they working" People in Ukraine work hard, despite their many days off and low pay, they get a job done. They are not whiners and complainers, they do their work with a smile. As Russia pushes some ambiguous rhetoric about the innate and entrenched corruption of their failed neighbor state, they don't want to admit that a lot of Russian  entities were actually using the Ukraine as their own private piggy bank. In Ukraine Today , it's not about whether or not people in politics and government stole money, it's about who stole too much money, where did they stash it and how are they spending it

I guess it's easy to simplify issues,  I miss checking the mood on the Metro system in Kiev, despite the  reputation of FSU people to keep a close guard on the feelings they show outwardly, as a group in transit, they read somewhat easily enough. Most people I know here on the left Coast , want a simplified idea of things, but not all look for the most easy way to fit it in a nutshell What if Geopolitical conflicts could get solved with Therapeutic psychological counseling ? Most of us tend to squirm at the thought of a third party telling us how we need to reshape our thinking : These are people for whom psychology is a finely tuned art, it nearly feels like it is Genetically encoded, this instinct for psychology.  People ask me what is going on there in Ukraine, maybe I should take a Go_pro video of a shopping experience in a working class Grocery store ? Human behavior in a Grocery store, it is very revealing, how people gather their list of things, maneuver the aisles, study t

Frontline blues : it's random stuff ? the pay for the Ukraine Defenders is perhaps so little that they are all like volunteers, but they are motivated, you have to wonder what the people caught  on both sides of the Ukraine conflict are thinking, if it is going to slowly de-escalate or escalate suddenly. The fact remains, that Ukraine has all it's resources containing the conflict zones. If the Kremlin felt a need to make the Ukraine into it's own private colony, while it'd be expensive  they could have their army in Kiev in one or two days, they could virtually drive through the border check point in Sumy Oblast, (it would be the most direct , shortest distance to Kiev from the Russian border ) the Ukraine Border guard would only be able to fire some warning shots, and while they may have some defensive tricks under their sleeve, the Russian ground forces could be into Poltava before the Ukraine Army could formulate much of a response A simple act such as the US