{"id":50848,"date":"2022-03-10T02:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T02:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50848"},"modified":"2022-03-10T02:35:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T02:35:01","slug":"helpless-thats-how-i-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50848","title":{"rendered":"Helpless: that&#8217;s how I feel"},"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\">The images coming out of Ukraine produce a helpless feeling among those of us watching them. It\u2019s hard for me to assess it in real time. I just know it when I sense it, when I feel it in my gut.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians are committing what have been described as war crimes, or crimes against humanity. How? By bombing hospitals and targeting, apparently, civilian targets. The modern rules of war compel nations in conflict to limit their targets to the military establishments of their adversaries. That isn\u2019t happening in this ground war.<\/p>\n<p>Russian army and air units have dropped bombs and fired missiles at the softest targets possible. Hospitals, schools, churches. It is sickening to watch this, and to watch the 2 million (and increasing) refugees flee their home nation for unknown destinations.<\/p>\n<p>What, then, becomes of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin\u2019s standing as a world leader? He becomes a pariah. Putin has become\u00a0<em>persona non grata<\/em>\u00a0among many leaders of what we know to be the civilized world.<\/p>\n<p>The carnage continues. Ukraine is fighting back and delivering extensive damage to the supposedly vaunted Russian war machine. It\u2019s not enough to just sit here and wish the Ukrainians well in their struggle for survival. Sadly, that\u2019s all I \u2014 as one American patriot \u2014 can do.<\/p>\n<p>I feel helpless \u2026 and I don\u2019t like feeling that way.<\/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>The images coming out of Ukraine produce a helpless feeling among those of us watching them. It\u2019s hard for me to assess it in real time. I just know it when I sense it, when I feel it in my gut. The Russians are committing what have been described as war crimes, or crimes against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Helpless: that&#8217;s how I feel<\/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":[9902,4998],"class_list":["post-50848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-russian-invasion","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50848","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=50848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50849,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50848\/revisions\/50849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}