85 лет назад на СССР напал враг, в значительной мере обладавший ресурсами всей Европы. Всего за 100 дней после 22 июня 1941 этот враг дошёл до Москвы, захватив колоссальные территории и едва не уничтожив СССР.
Только адское напряжение всех сил страны, неисчислимые, до 30 миллионов человек, жертвы и колоссальная помощь двух стран Запада позволили избежать гибели и в итоге победить.
Это стоит напомнить тем, кто сегодня кричит, что Россия-де воюет со всем коллективным Западом, который якобы на неё напал.
Будь так, для России всё было бы кончено ещё 4 года назад.
😢😢 She stands at her father’s grave.
No words. Just flowers, and a hand resting on the stone.
Her father put on a uniform and went to defend Ukraine. He didn’t come home.
She came today so he would know she remembers. So he would know it meant something.
There are thousands of graves like this now. Thousands of daughters, sons, wives making this same quiet journey.
We document this war in distributions and deliveries and numbers. But this is what the numbers look like up close.
A girl. A grave. A father who gave everything.
He is not forgotten.
Courage is contagious.
The Lessons I Learned from My Dad
I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.
Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.
I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.
I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.
I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.
Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.
That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.
Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.
Симоньян: цель Украины в том, чтобы российское общество разочаровалось в войне.
Какая ужасная, омерзительная, человеконенавистническая цель: сделать так, чтобы людям не нравилась война.
Ну как так можно, а, украинцы?