Today marks the fourth year of russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Four days earlier (on February 20th) we hit the mark of twelve years of russo-ukrainian war. That one that "could never happened if trump was the president" and still was happening during his presidential term.
Yes, back in 2014 we thought "it's far". "This will not happen to us". "We're safe". "It is 21st century, what could possibly be wrong?". Yet it happened and keeps happening. From deafening sound of sheer panic and uncertainty the war has woven into our lives tightly. It disrupts our plans. It shatter our future. It limits us to "one day perspective" with heavy leaning towards "if there won't be air-raid alarms/air attacks". It takes lives of people who you don't know personally and sometimes even your own relatives. Because someone doesn't want to stop and focus on their own country as they should.
We've learnt how to live during wartime. We wake up in the morning after terrible shellings and we still have work to do, places to be, art to create and consume. The harsh truth is — survival isn't that beautiful picture from minecraft where you have small farm and whatever. We are still alive against hopes to exterminate every single Ukrainian that many people in russian federation is sharing out loud or supporting quietly, with rubli and best wishes to occupiers. We are still here. Our voices are still existing.
I want you to remember not only killed by russian missile or drone strikes, servicemen on frontlines or whatever. I want you to know that there are people who simply couldn't get through it and cut their own lives before it will something else. I want you to remember Ukrainian warriors that are still just people (and fuck you if you'll start on "b-b-b-but rumssiamsn" stfu). Imperfect and flawed. Sometimes scared. Because they're still people. People, who are doing literally the hardest thing and that's not only protecting their own homes and loved ones. They're protecting all the Western Europe from hands of people who can't fucking get over crush of soviet union era and trying to revive that dead corpse of repressions and colonising.
russians are also people who have choices. Some of them are choosing to enroll the army and continue to kill Ukrainians. Some of them are choosing to be silent and apolitical to entertain you, who don't care about anything but pictures with certain characters. Some of them are choosing to be deaf dumbfucks and whine about "we're poor people the world is hating us". Some of them chooses to help army directly by building missiles and drones, getting resources for rf army, fundraising for mass murders and so on. War isn't responsibility of one only person. It's a product of all the people in system. And country is a system indeed. Glued together on hatred towards neighbours and bloodshed system.
So yeah. Four years of russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Twelve years of russo-ukrainian war that started with occupation of Crimea peninsula, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. And world still allows it.
After all there's no justice for aggressor if they're paying enough money and buying themselves a discount for massacres, yeah?
