In 1939 not quite five years old Jacques Austerlitz was placed on the Kindertransport from Prague to Wales. He had a chance to escape his cold and dismal upbringing when he was sent away to school. Once there, his foster mother took ill, his foster father was hospitalised and Austerlitz learned his true identity, but none of the details.
Upon his foster mother’s deathbed, she asked her husband,
“What was it that so darkened our world?”
This leaves you to wonder what she had been like before she turned into a joyless and unfeeling woman, and what was the turning point, or did it sneak up on them little by little?
Several people get a lot of difficulties in their lives. For some, it goes so far that their world seems to be a very deep, dark ravine. Some know how to climb up from that sometimes very deep gorge. They then succeed in getting sunlight back into their lives. Others then drown earlier in the crashing waterfall of opaque difficulties.
For many people in North-Eastern Europe, 2022 also produced very dark storm clouds. Many Ukrainians saw the sky darken and saw rivers of red-blooded earth flowing alongside.
During the first World War there were operations on the main Russian front as well as campaigns in Romania that brought darkness to the eastern regions. Then it was between Allied and Associated Powers versus the Central Powers countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria. Not long after that horrible period, the world was again at war, to the Axis powers with again Germany, this time with Italy, and Japan in the Second World War.
After a very long time of peace between countries on the European continent, the Russian Federation changed that in February 2022, in order to spread a black blanket over Europe again. Stretching over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin could not make peace with the great piece of land that was only a shadow to him from the former great Soviet bloc he wishes to see restored. He was not satisfied with the land he could reign, even when it was a land of superlatives.
We may not forget that Russia is by far the world’s largest country, covering nearly twice the territory of Canada, the second largest.
Gluttony and power madness, however, are a breeding ground for the urge to conquer. For example, Putin wants to expand his empire to the south and southeast, where he wants to keep the Chinese friends and leave their grounds left untouched.
After the Nazis brought storm clouds all over Europe, we are now again confronted with frightening reports, because that man from the North does not claim to be afraid to use nuclear weapons if he deems it necessary. We also know how he did not make his troops shy away from attacking and conquering nuclear energy companies. Also bombing non-military areas and destroying dams to flood large areas, he has shown that he does not shy away from anything and that he has nothing to do with human life.
More than a year after Putin claimed to liberate our country from the Nazis, it stands firm, ready, certain and clear, that he just wanted to conquer Ukraine and take it over until it is part of his great empire. It has become obvious where he wants to go and what he wants to do.
With the bombing of the Danube ports, Reni and Izmail, the Russian army has been throwing bombs only 300 meters from the NATO border. For Romania, it is getting warmer under their feet and if the Russian army no longer pays attention to where its bombs end, the threat of a third world war will soon be near.
Not only Ukrainians should now be concerned about possible impending storm clouds. Putin has become a general threat to world peace. A few months ago, my world had actually collapsed, and the darkness drove me to the South West, where I hoped to be safer and to be free from the violence of war. But with Putin’s profound greed, I am not so sure now. I hope that the European Union will remain free from war and violence in its field. Because anyway it is already fully involved, although one does not want to admit that Europe is now also at war with Russia.
We can no longer ignore the fact that Putin has succeeded in putting a very heavy, dark blanket over Europe.
Worldviewer 
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