Managing Director IronMike Solutions LLC
May 10, 2024
My Thoughts on the War in Ukraine Part 4
(What can we learn from Ukraine Women?)
These are my thoughts and not yours. I will say again I support Ukraine’s defeat of Russia. I support them in ways I cannot talk about here.
I have almost ten years of experience learning about Ukraine. I have learned much and as I stated in a previous post, when others were predicting the fall of Kyiv and a 4 day war. I said NO. They will fight and fight they did. What made me think this? What insight did I have that made my prediction correct when so many others were wrong? It was the women of Ukraine.
In my travels to Ukraine I have met many people of all types and backgrounds. But the women I have met and had the chance to talk to gave me a refreshing outlook on Ukraine and women in general. They would ask me questions about the USA and what I thought would happen with Russia. They were very concerned that Ukraine would become a battleground between the USA and Russia. I would ask them how they felt about it and do they think Russia would take over Ukraine? They would not say “I hope not” or “I don’t know”. They would say “NEVER! ” I was impressed to say the least. As a man I understood the strength of their words.
These women understand men much better than western women do. They expect their men to be strong and to lead. They understand that when they support their men that they will climb mountains for the women in their lives. So when they say Never or they tell the men in their lives to fight and defend the home land, they will. The men reading this will know what I mean. After all we call the land of our birth the “Motherland” we call our ships in the Navy “she” and the enemy ship is “he”. It is in a man’s nature to defend and these women spark that nature with their love and support of Ukraine, their families and the men in their lives.
These women do much more than this, they volunteer, they make body armor by hand, they nurse the wounded and some even pick up rifles themselves. They also make time to be women and to comfort where they can.
So it was the women of Ukraine that gave me the confidence that Ukraine would fight. We should learn something from them.
I will close with this. When a young man lies on the battlefield, wounded and afraid, he never calls out for his day care worker, he calls out for his motherโฆ.
โฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆ.โฆ.
And here are some thoughts from a Ukrainian woman; a survivor of Bucha:
My super power is being Ukrainian
May 10, 2024
The empire will fall.
It’s how “russian colonialism 101,” an illustrated guide edited by Maksym Eristavi, begins.
๐ How to Occupy a Neighbour and Get Away with it?
It is the history of ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐, the russian Empire, the soviet Union, or the russian Federation. Regardless of the label they currently bear, they all adhere to the same principles of imperialism.
๐ค I wonder how it’s possible that Westerners are often portrayed as so intelligent and all-knowing but another russian invasion is still something unprecedented and new for them?
(You know, the term ‘Westsplaining’ didn’t appear without reason.)
In the past 30 years alone, modern russia’s history has been marked by numerous invasions, military interventions, and hundreds of thousands of war crimes in places such as Ichkeria (Chechnya), Moldova, Georgia, Mali, Syria, Libya, and Ukraineโฆ (it might not be the complete list)
๐ Ichkeria was ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ in 1994 and 1999 and is now fully ๐จ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐.
๐ฌ๐ช Georgia was ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ in 1993 and 2008, with 20% of its territory currently ๐จ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐.
๐ฒ๐ฉ Moldova experienced military intervention in 1992, resulting in 10% of its land being ๐จ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐.
๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine was ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ in 2014 and 2022, leading to 20% of its territory being ๐จ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐.
๐ธ๐พ Syria was bombed by its dictator, Assad, who received weapons from russia.
Additionally, russian military forces, particularly the Wagner Group, have been implicated in committing war crimes in Africa.
Every time that we ignore the aggression, it repeats.
Maybe it is time to stop ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐?
StandWithUkraine #Colonialism
Comment from :
Russia, during their Soviet Union phase, brought slavery back to Europe in the 1920s. More people died as property of the glorious Soviet Union in their slave plantations (Gulags) than ever existed during the 82 year period slavery existed in the United States (and in a minority of states at that!). They also spent the first 1/3 of WWII in Europe ALLIED with Hitler, carving up the portions of Eastern Europe that laid between them, e.g. Poland. They spent the entirety of WWII ALLIED with the Empire of Japan, that returned slavery in Asia, and murdered tens of millions. They ARRESTED and imprisoned American Airmen who emergency landed in the Soviet Union after the Doolittle raid… to appease their Japanese allies. Only after the USA dropped the 1st A-bomb did they declare war on Japan…in the hopes of stealing territory scraps from the USA/UK’s kill like jackals. And, it was the most malevolent growing European colonial power during the 20th century: when other European powers were REDUCING their colonial holdings, the Soviet Union was INCREASING theirs. In short: they’ve always been a$$holes.
russia has always been this way. It is American cognitive bias that prevents us from understanding the russian mentality. My fellow Americans, russia has never been one to value human life and rule of law. Genocide and crimes against humanity like stealing Ukrainian children and enslaving them is standard operations for russia. Remember RIF, reading is fundamental in understanding the brutality of russian existence.
#StrengthIsInUnity #GloryToUkraine #GloryToHeroes
Indeed, my friends, people like Biden, Scholz, and others like them would do a lot to improve their manliness if they had features that Ukrainian women have, as strange as it sounds.