(#6088) I will never stop advocating for Ukraine!

      Like out founding parents of our American Revolutionary War, Ukrainian citizens seek to control their own destiny. Like America, Ukraine wants to establish democracy as their form of government. As we colonists in America struggled to attain our freedom from another country that attacked us, so does Ukraine. One big difference here is that our colonists didn't have our oppressor on our largest land border. Our oppressors had to travel overseas to try to force their will on us. Not so with what Ukrainians are dealing with. Which raises my admiration for their intent even more than our own here in America.
     Our oppressor when we were fighting for independence where a mighty force in the world and we were more like a rag tag outfit. Yet our rag tag outfit was in possession of one thong our oppressor did not have. The will to fight to the death for our freedom. That is the main attribute that Ukrainians share with our earlier ancestors. Ukrainians are not deterred by threats and statistical impossibilities. They, like our foreparents, knew that living life under the yoke was not an option for freedom loving human beings. What is happening in Ukraine today in this moment is hard on my heart because I understand their quest to have the right to control their own destiny.
     What all of us who enjoy the freedom to live our lives on our own terms should be doing is supporting those who are striving to reach that same level. It is the duty of all of us under freedom to help those who are not there yet. Our whole human being population must be able to live the same as we the free currently enjoy. Those who fight against democratic principles of rights of humans need to be confronted everywhere they exist. For now though we are witnessing the struggle Ukraine is putting up to thwart the oppressors who would not only make them wear their oppressive yoke but to die if not worn in cowardice.