This tree is only questionably surviving at all.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]
Day: February 28, 2022
Caveat: comedian-in-chief
The current president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, worked as an actor and as a comedian before becoming president.
In this very short bit, he and another comedian review the history of Ukraine-Russia relations.
– Ukraine has always conned Russia!
– Oh, please, it can’t be understood.
– Ukraine has Russia one day…
– and Russia has Ukraine the next!
I don’t very often spend time on youtube, but after finding that short video clip, I ended up spending more than an hour watching some of Zelenskyy’s oeuvre, including an episode of the sitcom that he produced and starred in (in which he plays an everyman that becomes president) that propelled him, via a bewildering life-imitates-art trajectory, to the presidency.
Caveat: Poem #2037 “Violent hopes”
ㅁ ХАЙ ЖИВЕ, ВІЛЬНА УКРАЇНА! historical hopes proud hopes possible hopes revanchist expectations diplomatic action logistical action military action geopolitical advancement necessary war justified war holy war pointless invasion send them in let them fight take the land burn houses get captured shoot it all go to hell righteous violence mud-strewn violence bitter violence violent hopes
– a quennet.