Russian occupiers are seeing new signs in Ukraine

[BeyondGeography]

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Kick!

[momta]

22. Or...

KÏck

[Walleye]

2. The Ukrainians are showing Americans what it really means to defend democracy

[BeyondGeography]

3. It can't be overstated

I don’t want to think what the world would have looked like if Zelensky had hightailed it out of there in February.

[Walleye]

4. Definitely one of those definitive moments in history

[Sky Jewels]

6. Can you imagine if Trump's coup had succeeded?

Ukraine would have fallen to Putin immediately.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Trump called him a genius

Biden called him a war criminal.

Things really hang by a thread.

[Grokenstein]

8. OTOH dim donnie calls lots of things "genius."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-antibiotics-coronavirus-white-house-briefing-brilliant-enemy-genius-idiot-a9460636.html

“This is a very brilliant enemy. You know, it’s a brilliant enemy. They develop drugs like the antibiotics. You see it. Antibiotics used to solve every problem. Now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can’t keep up with it.

"And they're constantly trying to come up with a new – people go to a hospital and they catch – they go for a heart operation – that's no problem, but they end up dying from – from problems. You know the problems I'm talking about. There's a whole genius to it."

dim donnie: outwitted by a "germ."

[SergeStorms]

14. He nailed it, didn't he?

Yep, yep, yep. People die from "problems" almost every day in this world now. 🙄

It's certainly not like it used to be before antibiotics, vaccines, antiviral drugs etc. Back then there were no "problems" to die from.

This, from our "stable genius" , twice impeached, soon-to-be indicted, ex-president.

[Lovie777]

5. Good . .

[blue-wave]

9. Slava Ukraini!! Any way I can use that

symbol as an avatar on my DU account?

[calimary]

15. I'd guess the stark blue-and-yellow graphic version might be the easiest to reproduce.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

10. Thank you for posting this

[niyad]

11. Slava Ukraini!

[bronxiteforever]

12. Kick & recommend!

Glory to Ukraine!

[DFW]

13. Great symbol of defiance, but........

It would be a linguistically naïve statement to say that the letter only occurs in Ukrainian...............

[BeyondGeography]

16. It hasn't been used in Russian since 1918

So I think the target audience will get the point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_I_(Cyrillic)

The dotted i (І і; italics: І і , also called decimal і (и десятеричное, after its former numeric value), is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel /i/, like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in English "machine". It is used in the orthographies of Belarusian, Kazakh, Khakas, Komi, Carpathian Rusyn and Ukrainian and quite often, but not always, is the equivalent of the Cyrillic letter i (И и as used in Russian and other languages. The letter was also used in Russian before 1918.

[DFW]

18. No, modern Russian doesn't use it at all.

But it is NOT unique to Ukrainian. Using is the Russians' face though, will be effective, as most Russian conscripts will recognize it as part of standard Ukrainian orthography, and will not know any French at all.

[jaxexpat]

17. Would it be an inaccurate statement? Linguistical naivety being so common. Who's to know?

I'm sure the symbol occurs in nearly every alphabet that starts with A, right?

Please tell us. We need to know.

[DFW]

19. Nope, but not unique to Ukrainian

So why say so? The point can be made perfectly well without putting that in there.

[thucythucy]

20. Reminds me of how people used to paint a "V"

on walls and such in occupied Europe during World War II.

Which is why the first notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony also became a symbol of resistance.

[Liberal In Texas]

21. And reminds me of how the GIs used to write "Kilroy Was Here" on walls all over

Europe. The Germans actually thought Kilroy was one guy and the Allies were moving troops all over the place at will or was a spy or something.

[ultralite001]

23. Resistance...

Ukraine...




Everything old is new again...


That is all...