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In my post marking 1000 days since the start of the current stage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I was quoting an old joke from here about a great leader asking first for his red cape before a difficult battle, so the troops won’t see when he’ll get wounded, and then for his brown pants before the even more terrible one that followed, and saying that, with how things are going in Ukraine and with Trump about to take over in the US, it may well be time for the brown pants for all of us in this part of Europe, and not only. And now, at the three-year mark, I can confidently say that it is indeed that time.
When many good pieces have been written on the topic recently, ever since Trump and his team began actually doing what anyone who wasn’t so determined to keep deluding themselves knew to expect all along, I won’t comment more here, especially since I couldn’t even write these few words before midnight, so this wasn’t even posted on February 24. But I will return to that joke and say that, brown pants or not, that leader still went to battle. That’s the spirit that those who fight and die to defend all of us emobody and, at least so far, that’s also what Zelenskyy continues to do, proving that he’s among the greatest statesmen the world has seen for the past several decades. So the least that the rest of us can do is keep supporting them in whatever way we can, keep demanding a united front against Putin’s regime, and now also against Trump’s, and strong alliances that are primarily meant to protect those who are actually in danger, which in case of NATO, which was created specifically to protect against the USSR, now means primarily Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. I mean, all of this could and should have been snipped in the bud back in 2008 if those who could have done something about it wouldn’t have kept deluding themselves and refusing to act.