{"id":50803,"date":"2022-03-06T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T14:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50803"},"modified":"2022-03-06T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T14:31:26","slug":"tough-to-watch-these-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50803","title":{"rendered":"Tough to watch these scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tanks-rolling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50787\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tanks-rolling-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tanks-rolling-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tanks-rolling.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">My old age is showing, as I am finding it increasingly difficult to watch the televised images from Ukraine that show the entire world what Russian military forces are doing to those who live in a country those forces are seeking to conquer.<\/p>\n<p>They make me very angry. No, I am not going to suit up and go to war, fighting alongside the Ukrainians. I am way too old for that.<\/p>\n<p>I just become enraged when I hear rhetoric from those who suggest that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should just give in to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin\u2019s demands \u2026 whatever the hell he intends.<\/p>\n<p>Putin has launched a humanitarian crisis in Europe not seen since World War II. The Ukrainians are trying to defend their country against naked, bald-faced aggression. Putin, who once ran the Soviet spy agency the KGB, once told Barbara Walters that he didn\u2019t order anyone\u2019s death while serving as the Evil Empire\u2019s top spook, that he was more of an \u201canalyst.\u201d Do you believe him? Hah! Neither do I.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure I can stomach much more of this, not that it matters to anyone at the center of the fight. I just am left to vent my frustration and rage via this platform and hope it somehow trickles into the decision rooms of those who are committing these war crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old age is showing, as I am finding it increasingly difficult to watch the televised images from Ukraine that show the entire world what Russian military forces are doing to those who live in a country those forces are seeking to conquer. They make me very angry. No, I am not going to suit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tough to watch these scenes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4050,4998,5125,9896],"class_list":["post-50803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50804,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50803\/revisions\/50804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}