Ukraine Starting Over

It is interesting to see the regular people in Crimea complain about things in "Our Crimea" , I know that exact place in Crimea with my feet, at least 2 or 3 times I have been there. These are good people , simply caught in Geopolitics. Something could actually be said that the Ukrainian language bill, law, passed in Ukraine's Rada amounted to "Discrimination against older people" A lot of people, older people in Ukraine simply were educated in Russian language, regardless of their individual background. Were people in their family sent to Gulags, or were people in their family sending other people to the Gulag? At this point in time, it's only partially relevant to the reality on the street, the people who want to do business and get on with life. Yet the Russian Federation bit off a pretty tough piece of meat from Ukraine, there are plenty of reasons to support a natural, historical connection of Ukraine with Crimea, and if you aren't an idiot, or if...

It will be interesting to see how the New President of Ukraine navigates issues of regionalism, not only in his cabinet and staff, but policy and management decisions. The underlying economic questions about the state of Ukraine's economy are a serious matter, for they are losing far more people through outward migration, than through the war and conflict. You need to bring your cool game to Ukraine, Now, more than ever! The cool game  is subtle, nuanced. One has to appreciate the concept, while I am promoting only the idea , as myself all alone in the world, that these are moderate  and hospitable people, who don't want any trouble. That cool fashion chic, it's actually hard to do, as much as the fashion A Game in Ukraine is more than a challenge, it is probably a reality. While our ultra elites eschew expensive designer brands in preference for older, recycled and repaired clothing. This is the conundrum of how to present one's self in this vastly disrupted, high...

Indeed, congratulations to the new President of Ukraine, I remember him as a person who can ask a basic question, and pause for a moment, to construct a formulaic thought that's funny. I'd hope that I get a second and third opportunity to meet him, to have some chance to return the favor of his humorous thought about me, to make some funny statement about his Presidency,  "So you like the shape and feel of that Bulawa (The Presidential Ceremonial Mace) in your hand ? The most serious issue of the day, is clearly about the continued reformation of civil society, and resolving the conflict in the East. There are many leverage generating tools available for Ukraine , and he appears to understand their overall nature, such as increasing sanctions, improving defense related technology.  I did sense back then, that this interesting man I met at the bottom of the steps (future President to be Zelinskiy)  was a truly and thoughtful person. I try to think of myself as a true...

Well it's late my time on the Left Coast of USA, and through the rain upon the trees that kisses on the run. I know what it always has been, a transparent dream beneath an occasional sigh now I wish it hadn't begun. Casual readers herein, should not bypass the convoluted depth of the conflict within Ukraine. And I know... when the truth is found to be lies... the press has mostly glossed over the political crime of the 21st century, the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Perhaps the most egregious political assassination since the sad demise of Senator Robert Kennedy. Boris  Nemtsov was eliminated in my view, quite explicitly  for his support of Ukraine's soldiers, sent out to the front lines of the conflict, totally unprepared for the context that they were inserted into:  to face off against highly trained Russian special forces. Now in some ways, if one survived the artillery strikes, the snipers, the trip wires, it can be said that if one was captured by Professio...

as we start into the final round of voting in the presidential elections in Ukraine Today , we should simply accept that there is dirt on the dirt spreader's hands, and there is dirt that makes the dirt flinger do their dirty work. Aside from Ukraine having given  up the World's third largest Nuclear Arsenal in the middle 1990's, Ukraine does still possess what I have heard is close to 60% of the world's best agriculturally arable "Black dirt"  This equation that was used against Ukraine,  the taking of food from them, under Communism , to support the Soviet State, it can be inverted, potentially against Russia's aggression. Geographically, she is  the largest country in the New Europe Yet the rapaciousness,  of the looting of monetary resources, multiple resources from Ukraine, it's stupendous. I always had heard that the beautiful young people of Ukraine, Dnipro had gone to fun party scenes in Cyprus, where they played with their friends i...

for some reason, my mind returns to that moment in some year, maybe 2011, that I inadvertently found that I had been routed on a bus service into the Chernobyl exclusion zone, via Poltava Ukraine, it was a random, erratic moment in my life, I remember that the bus station attendant woman had Gold dental work teeth caps. In many ways, I was ambushed by the moment. Many random factors brought me there to that time and place in my life. It is, perhaps, incorrect to conflate the events of Chernobyly Ukraine's Nuclear melt down and the present day, yet more random permutations have been made. The somewhat unsubstantiated "Over the Horizon Radar array" , that could hypothetically remote view an airplane taking off ,  from JFK International Airport, utilizing an  incredibly sophisticated electronic array in the early, late 1980's . Now I still have a back end project upon that subject, albeit an historical one, relating vaguely to my own personal experience on that incre...

Strange brew -- kill what's inside of you. She's a witch of trouble in electric blue, in her own mad mind she's in love with you. with you. now what you gonna do? strange brew -- kill what's inside of you. She's some kind of demon messing in the glue. if you don't watch out it'll stick to you. to you. what kind of fool are you? strange brew -- kill what's inside of you. On a boat in the middle of a raging sea, she would make a scene for it all to be ignored. and wouldn't you be bored? strange brew -- kill what's inside of you. Strange brew, strange brew, strange brew, strange brew. strange brew -- kill what's inside of you It's interesting to see the frothing of media, microscopic scrutiny of the two candidates remaining in the Ukraine Presidential runoff. For one thing, I am terribly conflicted as to who I might vote for, if I was somehow eligible to do that. Poroshenko, I had grown accustomed to his Presid...