#Shallow space insurgency free#

I won’t begrudge the Ukrainians for it on their part, this is a life or death struggle for many of them. This takes a degree of ethical fibre and fact checking, as you don’t want to spread misinformation or propaganda. That is, you document, download, and distribute as much news as you can. But I’ve spoken to enough people to know my own talents here. Ukraine burns while I sit comfortable, and I hate it. Again, the self-accusations of cowardice are strong here, I desperately want to do more. They’ll be there quickly, for better or for worse.įinally, and the option I think I can most readily do. If war does come, Canadian servicemen will not have far to be deployed. This photo, taken on an exercise in Poland in 2016, shows Canada’s small involvement in NATO defenses in Europe. If I’m going to fight, it’s with a pen and camera not a rifle. But I’m disqualified from military service. I refuse to sit here and advocate a military response if I couldn’t attempt to go myself. As a side note, I did see if I could enlist if it came to that. But be absolutely, unequivocally certain you know what that means. I don’t believe for a second we can avoid that risk, lest we let dictators with nuclear weapons do what they want. This will be total war on a scale beyond human reckoning. NATO being dragged into this war is, make no mistake, taking an apocalyptic risk. There are those that see a larger picture what comes next. Later, as the US offered to extract him, he would reply “I need ammunition, not a ride.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses his people and the world in a defiant street side video. If you can do what needs to be done, and can get there, Godspeed. But my myriad of health issues makes that difficult. I still feel like an abject spineless coward for not taking this path, camera in hand. This option is noble, and I’ll be honest if I could I’d have taken it. Some are going in person, to either fight as a volunteer or to document what’s going on as a living witness to history. The “Snake Island 13” have already proven Ukrainian resolve. Short of having the balls to tell a Russian warship to “go fuck yourself”, the most many of us westerners can do in the short term is financial aid or taking the risk and going over to Ukraine to fight yourself. Those with money can donate, and while trying to find reputable charities to donate to can br difficult, the Canadian Red Cross is accepting donations and is probably the best shot. Many people, myself included, are grappling with how we aid Ukraine and it’s people in this fight.

I’m not going to pretend I’m immune to such impulses. There is enough sabre rattling and armchair generals giving hot-takes. I’ve purposely kept quiet on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I do, however, ask you politely and desperately to at least hear me out.

#Shallow space insurgency free#

If you’d rather avoid this, feel free to skip. It’s to do with currents on the rapidly developing situation in Ukraine. I’m copying, and expanding upon, my Facebook post on my profile here.