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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/4/22 8:29 PM, Marcus Daniels
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<p>I started watching this guy (Beau of the Fifth Column)
semi-regularly months ago even though his affect triggers a lot of
my attempts to ignore my own redneck roots. I don't think I've
mentioned him before... I half expect Glen is already clued in to
him. It is hard to see/hear him without expecting to hear the
Trump Train tooting in the background, but he's quite the
opposite. Scary relevant/clued in/clear IMO.<br>
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<p> This "episode" felt like a powerful smack-down of those
(politicians/pundits?) who are rattling "no fly" sabers. To
summarize, my takeaway was "if you think you can establish a
no-fly zone in Ukraine, it would be yonks better to keep your
powder dry and do a first strike because a no-fly *will* be
Putin's pretext, even though he'll likely find another anyway".</p>
<p>In personal anecdote space, Mary's nephew in Madison WI hosted a
young woman from Ukraine as an exchange student a few years ago.
They did a GoFundme to raise the cash to do everything they could
to get her out. She was hunkered down 80 miles East of Kyiv on a
farm she was interning (organic farming) on... all the women and
children evacuated fairly early on but they didn't have room for
all so she and another young woman stayed behind. In the last
two days, she worked her way from there to Lviv (<50 miles from
Poland) and hopes to make it to the border where the current time
just standing in line to be processed is order 20 hours (according
to her) though Poland has no document requirements... if you
show up at the border and you are not a military age (16-60?) age
male they take your name and try to help you figure out what to do
next I guess. The nephew and wife who are expecting their
second child any day now are trying to get her here to their rural
homestead to live indefinitely. Otherwise (imminent birth) her
nephew would be in Poland to meet her. <br>
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<p>My Ukrainian colleagues are still incommunicado with me, but our
mutual colleagues who have remained engaged (Matt and Janire of
4Pi Productions, some of you met/knew through SFx...
English/Spanish) speak with the non-Russian of the duo (Yuri)
every day or two. They are hyper-focused capable 40-somethings
and at least Yuri will be one of the guys figuring out how to pry
the tracks off of tanks with prosumer drones or something. <br>
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<p>I have one other Ukranian (Karkeiv) contact that I have only had
one brief contact with a couple of days ago. She is a lot less
resourceful and in spite of having power, water, even internet
(intermittently) doesn't know what to do beyond hiding in her
basement (apartment building) everytime there is a air raid
warning. She wasn't able to give me enough info in our brief
exchange to know how to even begin to help her personally.
Right now financial aid in general (as per Glen's ideations
against over-focusing on only helping people you know) seems like
the "most/least" we can do.</p>
<p>My former NREL colleague (now IOHK/Global ala Cardano/Ada) has 12
colleagues in Ukraine, he only knew of 2 a week ago and a similar
or larger number in Russia) and expects to get more "insider
stories" from both quarters "soon".</p>
<p>This feels much bigger in my lifetime than 9/11,
Iraq/Afghanistan, COVID, even Trump.... maybe it is the
proximity in time, or a lifetime of cold-war spectre.</p>
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