In May 2019 I was fortunate to tour the War Rooms of Winston Churchill in Westminster. I’d seen the movie “Darkest Hour,” and being there brought home the hopelessness of their plight. Europe had fallen, and the U.K. was under siege.
Today resembles, too closely, what happened there over 80 years ago. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sent out the Churchill echo that “we will not give up and will not lose. We will fight till the end, at sea, in the air. We will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost.”
Nearly the entire world, with bated breath, wishes the Ukrainians a humane outcome in this time of upheaval and confusion, seemingly everywhere.
The counterpoint to Zelenskyy is a thought I had regarding our President Biden. I could hear him say, “If disaster approaches, I’ll hide under the White House, or I’ll hide in Delaware, Camp David or the NORAD bunker in Colorado. But the last place I’ll go to hide is my son’s place in the Ukraine.”
A liar destroys the whole world because they alter most, the moment in which those who believe them live.
Daniel Robinson
West Deer