During the last 3 months, I've met many politicians & public officials across the world. Some officials wonder why Ukrainians, especially civil society, are so pushy regarding weapons support from allies. Does civil society actually have to deal with #ArmUkraine?
Russia has started the full-scale genocidal war in Ukraine. My last 117 mornings are starting with reading necrologies on social media. Thousands of people are dying because they are Ukrainians. They could be alive if Armed Forces of Ukraine had enough weapons
Now russia is not hiding they are using famine across the poorest countries in the world as warfare. This is much bigger than the genocidal war in Ukraine, this is a war against the developing world and the basic values of the free democratic world.
Russia's plan is to use poor countries under threat of famine as hostages and prove the wealthy democratic world can't save the poorest people in Africa from starvation, which Russia caused with blocking Black Sea ports in Ukraine
The West seems still to have hopes Ukraine will enter into negotiations with Russia & in exchange for our territories and/or lifting Western sanctions russians will free Ukrainian grain. However, Ukrainian people are against it as it means death for millions Ukrainians
So the only solution to this deadlock is a significant increase in the amount and speed of heavy NATO military equipment to Ukraine.
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