I was wrong about No War between Russia and the Ukraine.
Yesterday Boris Putin ordered the invasion of the Ukraine.
The President for Life claimed that steppes always had belonged to Russia.
His troops made quick advances.
No one wants a war.
Especially not in winter like the USSR’s failed attack in 1939.
Covid has sucked the fight out of most everyone in the world.
And the Russian army marches down winter roads. Boots scrunching the snow. Their breaths a furl of steam and paper-thin boots.
Warmth is a forgotten luxury.
Food comes as a scarcity.
Shelter offers cold ground.
Armies disintegrate in bad weather.
And the nights are still long.
“What are we fighting for?”