Pieces We Need To Stitch Together Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

What we have seen since on Thursday is the unilateral attack and invasion of a sovereign democratic nation, which is smaller in size and weaker in military power and economic strength by a stronger dictatorship. But, the so-called democracies chose to offer just lip-service. The largest democracy in the world, that (I bow my head in shame to say this) is where I belong to, has not cared to even condemn the dastardly act of the Russian dictator. Everybody has an axe to grind. The sanctions announced by the west cannot have any immediate effect on Russia's designs, as that autocracy is economically and militarily strong, having drawn upon the blood for decades, of all the erstwhile parts of USSR, but never gave back anything. We do not have to look elsewhere for the reasons of the break up of USSR.