(#4791) The Zelensky speech to Congress

      The death rattle speech was hard to watch. Because we as a nation and the western world have not done enough to keep innocent citizens of Ukraine from harm. We fall back on our protocols in civilized understandings and that is fine if all are keeping to that framework. But when an aggressor like putin throws out the civilized playbook and wars outside the parameters of peace, we the west have to also move beyond civilized protocols and face the aggression with like aggression to defend. Our moral duty as the leading democracy in the world is to flex our strength in ways that move beyond being nice and civilized.
     The images of the destruction in Ukraine by the putin cabal in Moscow hit home directly with me as it invoked my taught memories of Pearl Harbor and my television watching of the planes flying into the world Trade Center buildings. The no fly zone has been dismissed as too volatile a step to take but I am still of the mindset of establishing one despite the rhetoric from the not strongman putin. I am no pushover by any bully so for putin to threaten us with nuclear war only pisses me off further and reinvigorates my desire to see him spaced. He does not deserve to be on our planet any longer.
     How the Zelensky speech is received by enough members of Congress to do something more beyond what has already been done is the question. The answer will be indicative of how much we really want democracy to succeed. I am not going to be here in this existence much longer than a decade or two so how democracy is too survive is beyond me. My hope is that it will be defended and that defending democracy does not become an errand of fools and cowards. The Zelensky speech was powerful and to the point. How we as a nation of United States reacts is what the history books will declare either as honorable or less than honorable.