The party was never truly over, was it? I know many people who have escaped Ukraine over the last century. I say escaped, because for most of the last hundred

The party was never truly over, was it? I know many people who have escaped Ukraine over the last century. I say escaped, because for most of the last hundred years the Ukrainian people have been in a vice. Their culture, society and history have been gradually erased. The expats I know who left a few generations ago don't consider recent generations of Ukrainian peoples to even be Ukrainian. Russia has been bitterly grooming their neighbor ever since they were divorced in the fall of the USSR, but even before that, too. It's all so sad. Beyond the deaths, turmoil, economic destruction, if Putin sees this through then an entire nation will have been erased. Erased! I don't want a world war, but we must ask ourselves when is it worth risking sacrifice of that which is personal. When the next nation is consumed? When it's too late? I recently worked with some really lovely peers from that region, from Ukraine. I wish I could teleport them somewhere else. All of this makes me feel so sick.