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Hav

(5,969 posts)
5. Even though the circumstances were different, it reminds me of the scene in a Bollywood movie
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 10:37 AM
Mar 2022

(yes, I've seen a few) when a Pakistani mother was begging the Indian boyfriend of her daughter to give up his love for the sake of the father.
"Are all sons in your country like you?"
"I don't know. But every mother in my country is exactly like you."

Wherever you are in this world, parents don't want to bury their children and certainly not for a stupid, needless wars.

70sEraVet

(3,495 posts)
6. Kind of funny - Putin's soldiers are facing angry Ukrainian mothers in Ukraine
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:12 PM
Mar 2022

And Putin's politicians are facing angry Russian mothers at home!
Too bad mothers aren't running the world.

3catwoman3

(23,973 posts)
8. If mothers ran the world, there would be no war because we would...
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:44 PM
Mar 2022

…not be willing to send our children to kill other mothers’ children.

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