Michael Ramirez: Appease Treaty 2-18-25
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Appease treaty. -Michael
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Editor’s Note: A long time ago, I learned that sometimes a situation is just overall terrible, the best-case scenario is a pipe dream, and there’s nothing uplifting you can possibly say about it except offering to pray. But not everyone is religious, and praying isn’t always appreciated, nor are chipper assurances that things will be OK or proving that you don’t understand the situation at all by openly hoping for the best, impossible outcome. There is one simple and magical phrase that can do a lot of heavy lifting and cover many situations in which you have empathy, but are ultimately powerless to change a course of events.
“I hope that things go as well as they can.”
Aunt Vivian’s cancer came back? The Johnsons’ sick baby will probably not get bumped up the transplant list in time? Grandma rallied, but the hospice nurse says this time actually is the end? “I hope that things go as well as they can” covers every possibility from a miraculous divine intervention to simply an end that is somewhat peaceful and relatively free from pain. In these cases, that’s all you can realistically hope for. It’s always enough, because it has to be.
Anyway, that pretty much sums up my feelings about Ukraine.
-Bree
Editor’s Choice Links:
Ending War in Ukraine Will Require Concessions from All Sides Says Rubio- Daniel Orton, Newsweek
Trump’s Plan To End The Russia-Ukraine War Is What Should Have Happened 3 Years Ago- Jonathan S. Tobin, The Federalist
Free Speech, German Style- John Hinderaker, Power Line
The NHS’s cruel witch-hunt of a gender-critical nurse- Jo Bartosch, Spiked Online
Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority- Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN
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