Re: Ukrainian Issue

 https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus47975-4460.html#p920579

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...hard for me to imagine after decades that we are witnessing nothing new. The manipulation of our fear that is a favorite for Leaders left and right, against "us", it seems; to divide us.

As a child i had the good fortune to live in a village where there were values we all respected and a routine which made sense; a "mixed" village, "they" said: ("our" way ignored).

I knew of the divisions of "Greeks" and Greeks, i knew of the division of "Greeks" and "Turks", and i knew of the unity (and harmony) between us, Turkish and Greek as Cypriots.

...in Cyprus (and in the Ukraine,) few of us can say that we are untouched by ''Them''. And yet, will we blame ourselves if we remain silent, if instead we choose ''their'' narrative as the Truth we live by (today, knowing what we know)?

The Problem is our problem if we continue to resist the changes we need to make within ourselves, having better intentions (than "Them").

...it is still more possible here than anywhere else; a definition for enosis that is not "Greek" (or "Russian"), not "Turkish" (or "Ukrainian") either, but something bigger as a whole, something worth far more, like Cyprus "being" for Cypriots (and the Ukraine "being" for Ukrainians).

We, those of us Cypriot, are, what Ukrainians will be when this war is over and they too have been torn apart. What then, when a "Ukrainian" or/and a "Russian" wins?

Cypriots must step up now to have an effect on the eventual result, here and in the Ukraine: an end to the Problem, or not.

Mr. Erdogan has begged for it; why else "picnics" on our beaches? Who, where, are the People to say differently? Mr. Erdogan needs us now if he is to make History successfully negotiating a settlement which can be emulated, no less.

...such a demonstration, Cypriots making souvla for each other, in times like these would be hopeful don't you think?