Post by Thomas Bindesbøll Larsen
Historian, cand. phil, Copenhagen
THE DIFFICULT PATH OF UNITY - ESPECIALLY IN TIMES OF WAR... 🇺🇦🇺🇦👍👍🌹🌹🍀🍀🌻🌻🌻 Dear all, Especially my dear Ukrainian friends, you brave and courageous both civilian and military fighters: It is truly hard these last few days for many of us "Western friends" to witness a power struggle in the country's leadership and defense. Especially right now, when brave Ukraine - after a very hard and cruel winter - has shown an amazing ability to fight back against war criminal Russia. With incredible success! Neither hard times, terrible human losses - nor conversely progress, military success, and thus hope, are due to individuals alone...but to your - ALL Ukrainians - ability to stick together, despite mutual (understandable!) disagreements and frustrations, in terrible, hard times. The rest of us -- your friends and supporters, always(!) even after this damned war is over! - who sits at a safe distance, without the pain and losses of war, frustrations, etc. -- we neither should nor can "interfere" in your own political and military dispositions. We only hope that these days' internal Ukrainian division can also be healed again, also thanks to your right to free(!) speech, demonstrations, opinions! So democratically fine!! In contrast to your enemy, Putin's Dictatorship Russia, where any critical opinion is brutally suppressed, imprisoned or murdered. I believe that my deeply missed, brave Russian friends, Anna Politikovskaya and Sasha Litvinenko, will greet you the same greeting as here. With hope for unity and progress for all of you, despite disagreements, in a democracy, also under attack and war. Hang in there - and stick together. You are our hope, fighting for all of us. THANK YOU! 🇺🇦🇺🇦💪💪🦋🌻🌻 https://lnkd.in/eTBdWnF3