I am sitting in my comfortable North Texas home while consuming the news pouring out of Ukraine and I am astonished at the sight of Russian bombs and rockets blowing civilian structures to smithereens.
Casualty counts? How many civilians are dying? How many of those civilians, moreover, are children?
Does this remind you of World War II? The conflict that leveled cities in Europe and Asia is now being re-played in real time in Ukraine.
Then we have Russian goon/strongman Vladmir Putin orchestrating a frontal assault on a sovereign nation and we learn that the early stages of the invasion are going badly for the Russians. Putin reportedly wanted to storm across the countryside and into the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. The convoy of trucks, tanks and assorted big guns is stuck. Meanwhile, Ukrainians are preparing to fight the Russian invaders to the death when they reach Kyiv.
This is a nightmare playing out 24/7 in front of the whole world.
I thought the kind of assault we are witnessing on our TV screens was a relic of the past. Silly me. It’s happening right now and it is a development that is fraught with extreme danger.