that the Pentagon believes Russia is recruiting Syrians adept at urban combat to fight and numerous reports of soldiers traveling to fight for Ukraine from the U.K., Canada , the U.S., and even as far as Japan and Jamaica.there is a real possibility Russia might deploy chemical or biological weapons. Putin also has an arsenal of so-called tactical nuclear weapons that work in such a way that the ultimate fallout from their use literally relies on the way the wind blows.
I try to mediate, but everyone has a reason to be aggrieved: My Ukrainian friends ask for help and call for a boycott of everything Russian. My Russian friends say they in no way support the war and are being punished unfairly for something Putin — an evil anomaly of history — has done in their name, without their consent.
In watching the war progress on TV, I feel helpless to do more. Surely I could, but what? Send money, quit my job and travel across the world to fight? I am no soldier, just a journalist, and hopefully my work will help me get closer to the truth of what is happening. After all, the lies persist: a church-going friend of mine told me her pastor praised the war, telling her congregation that Russia attacked Ukraine to free Hunter Biden’s sex slaves.