The Ukraine government has reportedly begun using land mines on its south western borders with Hungary, Romania and Slovakia in order to stop Ukrainians from leaving the country and forced service in its war with Russia. Zelinsky's term as President has expired so he is more or less an unelected comedian-politician forcing fellow citizens to be sent to the front lines. Therefore Ukrainians try to escape to non-extraditable countries where press gangs won't sweep them off the street or from jobs and homes in Ukraine to put on a helmet and get in a trench to wait for FPV drones to blow them up.
Learning from Biden Democrats, Zelinsky has discovered that power provides its own convenient lubrication for having things his way.
Herman Hesse (the author of Steppenwolf) wrote poetry about the brevity of life and its aging process. Certainly as one reaches old age the era of good youthful health and vitality becomes a faded memory leading one to wonder if that time was illusory, as might all of life be; that is the nature of temporality. Those citizens of Ukraine dragooned from peace and thrown into war and death may not have the opportunity to consider the phenomena of aging and the nature of the temporal experience; yet they should.
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