The War Through the Eyes of Meduza Readers. Today We Are Publishing a Letter from Anna in Moscow

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War. What is happening on day 1597 Volodymyr Zelensky met with Donald Trump the day before during the NATO summit in Ankara. The main outcome of the meeting was Trump’s statement that he will give Ukraine a license to produce missiles for Patriot systems. However…

The war through the eyes of Meduza readers. Today we are publishing a letter from Anna in Moscow

The harder it becomes for my mother — a jingoistic patriot with a higher television education — to find gasoline so she can drive to work instead of taking the bus; the more often explosions are heard outside her window at night from air defense or drone strikes; the harsher the winter becomes, if Ukraine’s attacks on the energy sector are successful — the more she will hate Ukraine.

And then Putin, looking down at her from the calendar on the bedroom wall, will be even more right, even wiser, and more far-sighted.

She will not wait for bank deposits to be frozen, she herself will go and hand over her modest savings for the needs of the army, because she believes that is the right thing to do. She will not wait for mobilization, she herself will send my young brother to serve on a contract, because she believes that is the right thing to do, and he has not yet developed critical thinking.

I am afraid of escalation, I do not see in it any hope that people or Putin will change their minds about anything. This locomotive is already racing ahead. And now there is a second locomotive opposite it, both beginning to pick up speed even more furiously, but there are no shoulders, there will be no way to swerve. They will collide in hellfire if they do not start slowing down right now. I dream that one of the drivers will have the courage to pull the emergency brake.

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