Complaining about the lack of means to counteract ballistics happens without additional realization that if not for the outcome of the 2019 elections, there would have been ballistics, and ways to counteract it, in some form of readiness this would have been.
The world does not feel a sense of urgency even now, because it’s not Europeans or Americans dying. This sense should be with us. If only things were called by their names in time.
Currently, cities are on the front pages of the news. When people die in cities, it horrifies. It sounds loud. But not everyone reads about the number of deaths in the regions. In towns. In villages. In border and frontline areas. And people die like on a conveyor belt, every day, and you just manage to learn geography by the names of villages you wouldn’t have heard of under other circumstances.
Lost time is measured by the number of lives. Like this: a year of life, during which some official rode the social elevator, failed in tasks, stole something, blundered somewhere, costs, roughly, a thousand lives. Such quiet Ukrainian no-names, mentioned in daily reports, but overall, someone has time. For their best life. And someone has neither time nor life.
Our ballistics would have been ready much earlier. And the means to counter Russian ballistics would have been prepared earlier. Now it’s too late to recall this, because people made their choice back then.
And what annoys me the most is this: “who knew?”.
If you don’t know, it’s better to stay home. Read books. Develop yourself. And don’t delay processes with your ignorance that could save thousands of other lives now.
