Russia Batters Ukraine with Deadly Airstrikes
Russia ramped up its attacks on Ukraine with a barrage of missile strikes. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the "battle for Donbas" has begun. Chris Livesay has the latest.
Ukrainians have a network of tunnels-one thing I learned about the war in Vietnam 1968 / 69. is that tunnels work and the enemy had plenty of them this gave them the advantage over a superior power because they could simply pop up anywhere attack then slip back into the tunnels. they could also launch missiles from these tunnel. It does not take a marksman to shoot a helicopter or fighter Jet out of the sky if you have a radar device under the battlefield and you can't find a target underground so you're safe from any source of enemy fire and bunker bombs were useless you had a map of the tunnels. If these Ukrainians soldiers have secured enough guns and ammo they can simply wait for the enemy to come to them. I saw this happen in real time and I lost a lot of friends who did not heed my warning. Putin can lie all he wants because this X KGB spy does not know how to win wars history tells us that he is only good at hit and run tactics and you can't win wars without knowing where your enemy is at any given time. I rescued some of the best fighter pilots after they parachuted from there planes many with body burns others with broken bones - being a grunt soldier had its advantages if you knew where the tunnel networks were located. and Putin has no idea what is about to happen to his boots on the ground.
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The ramifications of this war run much deeper than the impact it will cause to those directly involved in the conflict. It will reshape the world, as it is likely that other latent frictions between countries and territories will be activated as a consequence of the Russia-Ukraine situation. This war just opened an era of wars, small and large, between different peoples.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently said that this war could easily become "the biggest war in Europe since 1945", and I agree. If countries with similar backgrounds cannot reach agreement between them, then how much more likely it is that several countries that have big differences and ancient conflicts may easily slip into war for no apparent justifiable reason.
On a personal level, it saddens me to see how fate turns around and once again we find ourselves at war. I am sorry and restless since I have many students in Russia and Ukraine who are under threat and feel how the deteriorating situation is affecting them and the whole world. In Israel, too, I have many students who follow with concern what is happening in Eastern Europe, anxious about the fate of their family members and friends.
My hope is that the manifestations of hatred between the Russians and the Ukrainians will stop soon, two peoples who have lived side by side throughout history. If it were still possible, I would give everything I could to silence, calm down, avoid the escalation, but this is impossible for now.
There is not much that we can do at this stage. We can only long for peace and a ceasefire, talk about all parties showing restraint. The parties in conflict could follow the example of the Native American tribes who buried their hostility in a ceremony during which previously warring tribes agreed to settle their differences and live in harmony, and sealed their agreement by the chief of each tribe burying a war hatchet in the ground.
Such a scenario does not look realistic under the current circumstances. Thus, above the forces of hostility, above the egoism and control as the driving forces of all the conflicts in the world, we can only raise a global prayer for peace, asking that we all get along with everyone. Because only in the power of connection and in the connection between our hearts, can a great positive force arise, a force that is able to unite all parties, to reconcile the haters, to awaken the truth in us all that we all belong to one soul. As it is written, “He who makes peace in His heights, may He make peace upon us…” (The Book of Job, 25:2).
