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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,625 posts)momta
(4,079 posts)KÏck
Walleye
(31,025 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)I dont want to think what the world would have looked like if Zelensky had hightailed it out of there in February.
Walleye
(31,025 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,102 posts)Ukraine would have fallen to Putin immediately.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Biden called him a war criminal.
Things really hang by a thread.
Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)This is a very brilliant enemy. You know, its a brilliant enemy. They develop drugs like the antibiotics. You see it. Antibiotics used to solve every problem. Now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic cant keep up with it.
"And they're constantly trying to come up with a new people go to a hospital and they catch they go for a heart operation that's no problem, but they end up dying from from problems. You know the problems I'm talking about. There's a whole genius to it."
dim donnie: outwitted by a "germ."
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Yep, yep, yep. People die from "problems" almost every day in this world now. 🙄
It's certainly not like it used to be before antibiotics, vaccines, antiviral drugs etc. Back then there were no "problems" to die from.
This, from our "stable genius" , twice impeached, soon-to-be indicted, ex-president.
Lovie777
(12,265 posts)blue-wave
(4,353 posts)symbol as an avatar on my DU account?
calimary
(81,267 posts)Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)niyad
(113,315 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Glory to Ukraine!
DFW
(54,387 posts)It would be a linguistically naïve statement to say that the letter only occurs in Ukrainian...............
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)So I think the target audience will get the point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_I_(Cyrillic)
DFW
(54,387 posts)But it is NOT unique to Ukrainian. Using is the Russians' face though, will be effective, as most Russian conscripts will recognize it as part of standard Ukrainian orthography, and will not know any French at all.
jaxexpat
(6,831 posts)I'm sure the symbol occurs in nearly every alphabet that starts with A, right?
Please tell us. We need to know.
DFW
(54,387 posts)So why say so? The point can be made perfectly well without putting that in there.
thucythucy
(8,055 posts)on walls and such in occupied Europe during World War II.
Which is why the first notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony also became a symbol of resistance.
Liberal In Texas
(13,553 posts)Europe. The Germans actually thought Kilroy was one guy and the Allies were moving troops all over the place at will or was a spy or something.
ultralite001
(894 posts)Ukraine...
Everything old is new again...
That is all...