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I can relate to what you say in my own demoralization. My way of dealing with it is escaping into something other than reality.

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I think that something is not frivolous though, and see your spirituality. I would agree. Here that side is wanting. Kharkiv, where I am gets hit in a way that shocks one back into a reality that in many ways in facts feels anything but real. Ta Li!

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We live in a dark world.... if we only dared with the nuclear threat.

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Dark and surreal, yes. Commiserations my friend, we lost a very, very fine Swedish soldier recently, when I say we of course I mean all of us. He was truly a person who believed in extending his hand and fighting for what is right.

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An unusual, powerful metaphor, Ain, which conveys your despair.

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Thank you very much Kim...this Substack can be very annoying as you have written some lovely comments, but sometimes one cannot reply for some reasons.

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You mirror the hopelessness of the situation so compellingly in just 44 words.

"half a mast

of despair" is such a powerful expression, Ain!

It is really sad that emotions don't win wars otherwise Ukraine would have won long time ago.

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Yes.....thanks for those lovely words..they do deserve to win, nice country: Kharkiv, where I am at the moment is a v nice city (in picture above).

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Your despair is palpable, it's so sad and despicable that Ukraine is still suffering.

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