WOMEN AND MEN ARE EVER READY TO RESIST THE INVASION
Two years ago Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraine, let’s give them our support right now.
I was interested in the women Amazons, as I had heard references to it in the past. From the author Jessica Amanda Salomonson, here is an excerpt defining the true Amazon woman of the past, a mythical phenomenon, but surely based upon truth. And searching for Salmonson on social media I found her on Facebook. I wanted to include one of her posts concerning Trump/Putin for your enjoyment.
Okay their idea of a “MAGA Amazon,” one Ashli Babbitt. Like mother like daughter evidently. My apologies to all women warriors everywhere.
Of women warriors my thoughts immediately went to the Ukraine fight against the Russian invasion. So below is part of a recent NBC article which gives the overall basics of the Ukrainian women in the fight. We of good faith, of appreciation of democracy, can’t but honor these women and men in their struggle. And we must force through funding to them over the belligerent MAGA Republicans. We will end up fighting Russia if they are not stopped by the brave and ingenious Ukrainians.
Weary but determined, women join Ukraine's fight against Russia in historic numbers
NBC News
KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine
Feb. 21, 2024, 7:24 AM MST
By Richard Engel, @RichardEngel
Charlotte Gardiner @CGardiner11
and Yuliya Talmazan @yulst
More than 43,000 women are serving in Ukraine’s armed forces, according to figures released last November by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. That number has grown by 40% since 2021, it said. More than 18,000 of the women serving have children, according to the numbers, including more than 2,500 single mothers.
Women are also taking on more traditionally male roles in the military, according to the ministry, such as drivers, machine gunners, snipers and commanders. The age for those who can sign up has also been raised from 40 to 60. And with a dire shortage of soldiers, there are efforts underway to draw more women into those ranks.
Liutikova, who goes by the call sign “Liutik,” was a playwright from the capital, Kyiv, before the war. She volunteered to join the army in March 2022, just days after Russia’s invasion, and now serves as a combat medic.
Still, soldiers don’t have time to feel low, she said, speaking in English.
“You know why you are fighting,” she added. “Our destination, it’s too important for us.”
That destination is a Ukrainian victory, and it’s facing mounting odds.
Sitting next to Liutikova, however, another female soldier who goes by the call sign “Mavka” said she still feels the anger that motivated her to join the army two years ago — seeing the destruction and the toll on Ukraine’s civilians motivates her to keep going. “It makes me do my job,” she said, also in English, wearing a helmet with a military bandana around her neck.
Mavka, who did not want her name released because of her role in the military, is a sniper and drone operator. She also joined the armed forces in the first days of the war and has been involved in some of the most intense fighting, including near Bakhmut, a town Russia seized last year after a brutal monthslong battle.
Let’s pray (if we are the praying type) for Ukraine in their monumental struggle for sovereignty of their country against the neofascist Russian aggression. I hope that you found something worth remembering in my writing for this day. Certainly many women in this country besides those already in the military would respond to an invasion here. If a future scenario of insurrection comes up this election year, many an American Amazon will be present here to defend our constitution.
159th Posting, February 24, 2024.