Geopolitics : The right thing usually isn't the easiest thing

The wisdom of the crowd

None of this is actually complicated for billions of people. And they're all right.
But big organizations and processes made up of a lot less people, that have been delegated by the people to do the boring but dangerous things for them have a lot of difficulty determining the direction of their big old machines because efficient communication and decisions making isn't one of their strong suits.

But billions and billions need to be spent on a circus that makes talking about obvious things an important reason to be. And this should give people hope, but a hope of the kind that also comes with the realization that things can't stay the same either.

It was good while it lasted, and now we need to build on it's foundations and actually improve some things. Since this deadlock obviously isn't going anywhere, and making concessions to obvious lying agressors isn't something that makes sense no matter what they say.

The little arch in the middle of the bridge connection Crimea to the mainland is the perfect spot for those 2 to go talk now isn't it? And everyone else can line up a boat right next to it to watch them.

This little person writing this once had a marvelous experience when he was stuck on a ferry boat in the Mediterranean... It was one of those car ferry boats and depending on the route, the travelers that gather on these kinds of boats are incredibly diverse. If you really pay attention to everyone on them, and are also ok with taking the older less comfortable ones from time to time... Boy do you get to experience layers of society you never dreamed of.

On one of these adventures I met a family with 2 children that were escaping the Crimea after Russia invaded it in 2014... It took them a few years, but they managed to get out and they moved to an island in the mediterranean that I was going to for a vacation with my family.

The father of that family and me spent countless hours talking about important things. We both had many things on our mind... We both had many stories to tell that usually go unheard... We both had much patience and curiosity to learn of different perspectives to add to these many important things... And we both were natural storytellers so this conversation was different than most conversations go.

After short introductions we entered a completely open mode without restraint. No shame, no privacy, no fear... We shared our minds since we were two strangers who would probably never meet again and we both knew we weren't going to arrange that either. It was an unspoken but easily accepted bitter addition to the sweet pact we made.

They're both wrong , All we ask is they get along

The mode of conversation was easily accepted by both parties.

Since we are talking about serious things, there was much context to be placed first about basic beliefs, priorities and assumptions, so nothing could be said really unless in bursts of monologues, in which so much was being said that after each monologue some reflection time needed to be taken to think well about where exactly the perceptions were starting to diverge. And that would then would have to become the most important thing to reply about, since everything else after that was changed by that root divergence.

In many cases we would both learn, that we were seeing many things exactly the same though... But the only differences we could find were about how weighted both sides of the scales were. We could easily agree on what were the good things going on, and what were the bad things going on... but then we would surprise each other by tales we experienced to show that the bad things happen more often than you might realize. And that all those bad things seem to happen in the same way on all sides of these things.

This conversation made the ferry trip feel like a time-travelling device, where we were beamed over from the departure point to the destination in an instant.

The leadership that was delegated on both sides is making one incredibly stupid mistake, and their population... both yours and mine, is making the mistake of letting them get away with it too.

They are trying to make an utter failure in their primary responsibility look like a victory to remain in power. And every time you do that you have simply failed.
And that's ok, but then the next time has to show you're trying to learn from that failure and do better.

And if you can't do that, then you're not getting any victories worth making noise about.

The people living in those places that you fight wars about are saying that all global parties involved are wrong about what it is the people living there want.

They don't need your defense of things by war at all. This is not what they want, so proposing that is where you are all getting it wrong.

The only democratic request that has ever existed has been the absence of the actions that you are doing now.

And the bridge is the perfect place to go talk about how both your cultures are going to get along about the people living on the crimea.

Since down there, basically everyone speaks both languages. Knows both cultures very well, and both sides of history too.

They can actually show you how to get along, if you let them work that out the way they want. And they weren't having that hard a time to get along at all until the invasion in 2014 actually.

He hopes he can take his family home again to that place in the future.

It was stolen by those that say they're defending it.
It used to be ours, but now it's gone and nobody has it.
They don't realize they can't make it exist again.
And we don't even have to try that much... It just happens because of what we are.
So we can just wait until they go away again... and there where they are not...

We can just let it happen again, because we know what to do and we love doing it.

Oh and by the way... This article is also about couples counselling, and marriages and things. ;)