(#6092) If not for Ukraine's courage to stand up to putin Europe would be at war!

      In my lifetime Ukraine is the greatest example of hope and pride I have seen and felt. Many events have happened in my li9fetime that swelled me up with pride like the falling of the Berlin wall, Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon, and the election of a black man as an American president, but Ukraine fills me so deeply with pride and joy that nothing compares for me. It isn't just a flash moment where a sudden change occurs. The falling of the Berlin wall was decades in the making much like the moon landing was nearly a decade in the making itself. The election of Barack Obama was sudden in the sense that it was mostly unexpected however more than a century overdue.
     What Ukraine is doing is incredible. The whole of the country for the most part has been united in their ambition to remain Ukraine, a sovereign nation. the big bully on their border has been threatening them for decades even annexing Ukrainian territory. The threat from putin in 2022 for Ukraine to give up and surrender to Russia or be invaded kicked off such a massive alliance in Ukraine to deny Russia any condition of surrender except for Russia to pack up its troops and go away from the approximately 1000 mile long Ukrainian border with Russia.
     That putin ignored that response, he attacked Ukraine with the boasting claim of taking Ukraine in 3 days. He had nearly 250,000 troops on the border when the attack started and on this date more than 3 years later he has lost more than 1,117,000 troops. He has decimated his army to the point of using commercial vehicles to attack with. Ukraine has exposed Russia as an incompetent power with no modern sense of warfare except brute force. Meanwhile Ukraine goes all out to protect their troops and citizens as a rule. Ukraine has taken the Russian threats and built what is fast becoming an army the envy of the world. All because they wouldn't cower to a tyrant! I love the freedom fighting Ukrainian people!