Russia-Ukraine War or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Tim Piatenko
2 min readFeb 1, 2023

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I was going to write a long article on all the wonderful things that have happened in and around Ukraine over the past couple of months, such as

  • Slow but steady Russian advances in Donbas
  • Systematic (and highly successful) Russian bombardment of critical infrastructure
  • Ukraine’s pathetic air defenses operating from urban areas and firing missiles that routinely blow up their own buildings, when they don’t end up in Poland…
  • Zelensky’s internal conflict with Zaluzhny as well as the ongoing struggle with regional governments and city mayors.
  • All the various corruption scandals in Ukraine, culminating in today’s mass searches and subsequent sidelining of major political and business figures
  • Ukraine’s totalitarian control over the media
  • Bill Gates calling Ukraine’s government “one of the worst in the world”
  • Ukraine’s huge losses in the East and attempts to restock its military by grabbing people off the streets and sending them to the frontlines
  • Ukraine’s imminent demographic and financial collapse
  • Political spats between Ukraine and Hungary over discriminatory treatment of the Hungarian ethnic minorities in Western Ukraine
  • Poland and its eternal longing for the glorious past, which included all of Belarus and much of today’s Ukraine…
  • United States and its puppet games
  • Global arms trade and its new golden age, including Boeing’s rebirth moment
  • The “friendly” competition for control over Ukraine between the US and the UK
  • The relation between Ukraine and Taiwan, as far as the US military is concerned
  • The growing role of China
  • The overall cluelessness and gullibility of the general population
  • And the overarching human greed that knows no limits…

But instead, I put together a couple of comics :D

Enjoy!

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Tim Piatenko

I’m a Caltech particle physics PhD turned Data Scientist. Russia → Japan → US. Also on Mastodon @timoha@mastodon.world / @timoha@newsie.social 🐘