Ukraine Starting Over

I guess that we are talking about 1100 years ago or more. There were Kings in Ukraine, wise kings, kind kings and queens, persons that could see into the future and the past. I won't comment much on the contemporary USA's official State Department position on things. Ukraine has always, and often faced adversity, logistical challenges. In many ways , honestly, I am envious. I wish that I had been born, or raised in Ukraine, gone through their educational system, for all it's flaws, demerits, sketchy scenarios for being a student in University, High School, for decades they taught something that we in the West did not get, it was social unity through covalent bonding of like and disparate individualities. Their education syste was a very strong format. Albeit that it was often based upon the most dominant personalities creating a social hierarchy. Yet I envy the very obvious contiguousness of their educational process. I am perhaps a victim of my own individualistic approa

Ukraine and Russian people are great people, they overcame so much shit my great Grandmother, my favorite quote of hers was about having to wash "dirty, shitty jeans" and we, our family were bootleggers, train hoppers, trouble makers no doubt yes, I was there. It is in the history books. But what is that really ? An anecdote? I guess it is true, if one is a watcher of my occasional blog about Ukraine, this is off beat, perhaps a random mention. I was poking around in Netflix tonight. Netflix is a corporate entity, yet their marketing will promote whatever people like. yet I came across this Drama Documentary  Patriots Day it is "Cheesey" gratuitous yet perhaps relevant according to a time table, like a setting of a stage of conflict between Russia, USA, etc. Most people in USA, maybe 99% still have unformed perspectives about Ukraine's and Russia's conflict, regarding Chechens, Chechen militants. I cannot quite now did up the clips, but Chechen mi

I have been trying to pay it forward as best I can, just another left centered, creative person working the margins of Ukraine's rather eccentric geopolitical equation. Yet I admire some components of right wing thinking, I like to listen, if they are ready to create a 2 way dialog and not be didactic about it. So now these Poroshenko/ Biden tapes emerge . I still really like President Poroshenko, and many of my friends like him greatly also. He inherited a broken system and did his best to repair it. Above all else, he is a decent man, he cares about Ukraine greatly. He has his money, and had no need to steal any money from his people. He was ready to brave the drama of the Euro Maidan events and attempt to create some calm in the storm . Ultimately, perhaps this is a 3-way pissing match? Kolomoisky, Putin, Poroshenko ? as I see it, since I have met the man, Mister Kolomoisky/ he will have the last laugh. However things go with his claim of an ownership stake in his bank, Put