? זאָג, פון אוקראינע װאס זיינט איר אװעק —

[sovay]

Quite apart from events on the world stage, every day this week has contained some additional stressor, of which the latest example was spatch needing to spend the day at the ER for what turned out to be diverticulitis. He is home now with antibiotics and enjoying some well-deserved soup. My ability to do very much this week beyond work has been somewhat frustrated. Someday, statistically, someone I care for or even just know socially will catch a break and it will be awesome.

In terms of ongoing resources for Ukaine, Razom seems to have the bases covered. I found myself saying elsenet that I don't think I'm old enough to blame it on the failure of historical memory, but I keep catching takes from people who seem to have forgotten that the Yugoslav Wars—Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo—even happened and it is very strange. I understand the significance of the eight-decade mark since one stable sovereign nation in Europe invaded another. But it's not as though we haven't seen sieges and airstrikes in places that didn't look sufficiently (there are not enough scare quotes in the world) foreign as to feel safely distant since then.

Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: mir zaynen do, af Ukraynish.

Comments

[sholio]

I keep catching takes from people who seem to have forgotten that the Yugoslav Wars—Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo—even happened and it is very strange.

I've also been having this thought quite a lot. I understand that this is qualitatively and politically different. But at the same time ... I was born in 1976. I grew up under the shadow of the Cold War, Russia invading Afghanistan, Russian troops stationed across the sea from Alaska, and then when that was winding down, the wars in the Balkans. This does feel different from the last couple of decades, but it's more like "well, this feels a lot like the 80s and the 90s all over again" rather than 1940. At the same time I realize there are very different political forces in play and no historical event replays the same; hindsight lets us know how it all came out. But it feels very strange to realize how thoroughly a generation of peace (in that part of the world, anyway) has apparently wiped some things out of the collective memory. At least as far as American pundits are concerned - I expect the takes are a bit different in those parts of the world.

I'm sorry to hear spatch is unwell and glad there are antibiotics in play!

[minoanmiss]

*agemate fistbump* Well said.

*sends Spatch healing vibes*

[sovay]

*sends Spatch healing vibes*

*hugs*

[minoanmiss]

hug for you hug to pass on

[sovay]

But it feels very strange to realize how thoroughly a generation of peace (in that part of the world, anyway) has apparently wiped some things out of the collective memory. At least as far as American pundits are concerned

Right: I don't think it's an exact re-run of those wars, either. But it's as if a lot of people have forgotten that the last quarter of the twentieth century even happened and that's so well within living memory, I don't understand it.

I'm sorry to hear spatch is unwell and glad there are antibiotics in play!

Thank you! I have been telling him.