DaveW -
My 77 year old ex-wife was asking me how to join the fray. She had researched plane tickets, but her passport is dated and she was asking if that would prevent her from going there.I have a very good friend, Ukrainian living in Moscow wrestling with the dilemma of giving up his professional and very very lucrative career to go home and fight; recognizing the almost certain probability that he would not be allowed out of Russia.
As usual, you offer us good "hanging questions" to ponder.Unless your ex-wife is acutely able in some way, it is highly unlikely that putting herself into the milieu is in any way helpful, no matter her intentions. If she or you or someone in your circles live "nearby" in a context where *they* can be helpful to relieve the back-pressure of refugees and I suppose maybe "freedom fighters" on their way there, then that sounds like a good application of her resources/efforts. The seat she wants to take up would be more well filled by a "military capable" volunteer. But I suspect you already understand this and are asking rhetorically to encourage reflection on such things.
Your Ukrainian (Professional) in Moscow surely has options whilst still in Russia, some of them possibly *more* effective. If he is ready to be cannon fodder anyway (throwing himself into the frontlines against overwhelming odds) I'm sure there are myriad "suicide missions" that would be more effective right there in Moscow. With family and friends on the ground in Ukraine proper, it may well make sense to "go home and fight" to protect or reinforce them. If he's a bit more measured, I think there must be equally measured throwdowns. From what I see of the clamp-downs on protestors of all stripes, an obvious thing to do is to support (harbor?) such folks, merely taking the *risk* of losing a lucrative career, maybe 15 years of liberty, or even life itself. Same caveat as above...
- SteveS
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