Sunday, June 26, 2022

What's In a Name? By Any Other Name, Still War

Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Sievierodonetsk

Like a pestilence of death-delivering automatons

they swarmed into the country entitled as an 

organized national military to declare their 

special military operation as though that 

designation alone legitimized the wholesale 

destruction and massive death count of civilians. 

Taken aback when the citizens of besieged towns 

and cities struck back aiding their own military's

response that brought Russian commanders to 

account, the attackers were outraged when their 

victims responded in kind lobbing long-range missiles 

over the border to awaken their neighbours to 

the fact their armed forces were ransacking and 

slaughtering them in a blistering scorched-earth 

program of annihilation. The invasion of Ukraine

given the nomenclature of a just and sacred duty 

to release its citizens from the grip of fascism. Their 

saviours battering the country -- demolishing its 

structures and resources -- once again outraged that 

resistance against their noble enterprise has come 

in the form of reprisal attacks against their officials 

by the deadly delivery of car bombs. Earning the

patriots and defenders of their land the condemned

status of terrorists. The oppressors are heroic, the 

attacked to be despised as contemptuously barbaric.



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