seanessay.com As everyone knows, the Russians thought they could occupy Ukraine just as fast as their forces could drive across the country, with girls handing them flowers, as a prelude to installing their own Moscow-leaning puppet government. (Strange to see puppets, on stage, leaning to one side) As for we in the west knowing WHY, […]
Moved to Pity by reading Circe
seanessay.com Today I am moved because I finished the excellent novel Circe, (Pronounced ‘sur see’, accent on first syllable, I looked it up) about the island witch who turned the companions of Odysseus into pigs. It is selling quietly and well, translated into 25 languages. I suppose I can leave out telling you the book […]
Propaganda Posing as Social Media
seanessay.com BBC March 9, headline: A Russian woman considers leaving her country behind. (link) QUOTE “I don’t know whether I should pack for a month, a year or forever,” she tells me. “But I worry. I see a lot of supporters for this war around me, people who watch state TV channels. They seem like […]
Canada has Useful Idiots
seanessay.com I have known them from my reading, as they have kept reappearing like poison ivy down the decades, ever since 1917. That man who Iooks like Lucifer, Vladimir Lenin, called them “useful idiots.” You might think that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, no longer did (useful-to-Russia) innocent fools stick up for communism. […]
Timely Gravid Quotes
seanessay.com You may have heard that after some agonizing over their traditional neutrality, Switzerland has followed the EU lead for freezing the bank accounts of oligarchs, and denying them entry to the alps. This from a country that once stored Nazi gold. The Swiss have surely done the right thing. Holocaust survivor and author of […]
A Child’s View for the Killing in Ukraine
essaysbysean.com Say, are you reading this in the future, having a bird’s eye view, cold and objective, from your flying car? Having grown up among Ukrainian immigrants I still want to say, “the Ukraine” although in standard English everyone leaves off the definite article. Today while the Russians are invading I wonder, thinking of Sting’s […]