The average age of a Ukrainian soldier is now 43 years. Beyond astonishing. That's because they've run out of younger soldiers. 43 years old! Soon it will be 50. TIME Magazine article: "It has eroded the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces so badly that draft offices have been forced to call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in Ukraine to around 43 years. “They’re grown men now, and they aren’t that healthy to begin with,”" - https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/
“Nobody believes in our victory like I do. Nobody,” Zelensky told TIME in an interview after his trip to Washington, D.C.
time.com@HealthRanger We know that those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it, but still we do not learn. This was written after WWI:
The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.