Russia are really being cut off from all sides, this is the absolute worst case scenario for Poutine.
I hope anyone reading doesn't think that I'm flippant about all this, it's just that there's been so many posters reporting that all of this is making them so frightened, and triggering anxiety that I don't want to add to that. I'm naturally an anxious person, but as I've posted before one of the ways that I've found to mitigate that is to make sure I keep myself up to date and informed. I've read some really harrowing reports that I've hesitated from posting because it can't add to understanding, and just make people even more devastated, and the same with discussions over nuclear weaponry. What I don't know is what wakes me up at 3 in a cold sweat, and so even if what I'm reading is truly tragic and heartbreaking, knowing that I know, and I understand helps me. This war is such a colossal tragedy for the world, but equally from a geopolitical standpoint it is absolutely fascinating. Decisions have been made in hours that normally take years of debate and argument - such as the EU beefing up their military capabilities.
I posted earlier that my Mum's best friend was Bosniak, and I remember her saying the worst was the not knowing. Even if you know the worst, then at least you know, instead of the constant gnawing agony of thinking what could be happening to her friends and family (and then years later, finding out that the reality was so much worse). I don't want to post things that'll make me sound like some modern day Cassandra, wailing and tearing at my rags crying all 'we're all doomed'. Things are tit enough as they are, that won't help anybody, least of all me (I've already eaten three mars bars today, and had a cry last night). It's hard to strike the right level between 'yay, brave Kyiv will stand' and the other end of the spectrum, especially when nobody knows what will happen.
