The reaction of the American diplomat caused a wave of indignation among Ukrainians
The US Ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, reacted to the Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which killed 19 people, including nine children, and injured 61 people.
Commenting on the attack in her post on the social network “X”, she again did not mention the involvement of the aggressor country Russia. Instead, the ambassador stated that this shelling is the reason “why this war must end”.
“It is terrible that tonight a ballistic missile hit near a playground and a restaurant in Kryvyi Rih… This is why this war must end”, she wrote.
Against the background of such reports, the reaction of the American diplomat caused a wave of indignation among Ukrainians. In the comments to the post, she is accused of not mentioning whose missile killed people in Kryvyi Rih, and of not blaming the tragedy on the Russian aggressors.
Netizens accuse Ms. Brink of cowardice, not avoiding brutal insults.
“Have you forgotten how to spell the word Russia? Russian ballistic missile! Do you lack personal dignity, that even the murder of children by Russia is not a strong enough argument for you to simply call evil evil,” wrote Bohdan Krotevych, the former chief of staff of the Azov brigade.
In March, it was already reported that Ambassador Bridget Brink, in her recent reaction to the Russian shelling of Ukraine, avoids mentioning the Russian Federation. The Internet has noticed that in February, Brink directly indicated in her posts that Ukraine was being attacked by Russian drones and missiles. However, now she does not link the strikes to Moscow
And the whole thing is that Bridget Brink – like Trump before her, and J.D. Vance, and Steve Witkoff, and the entire Trump gang of newly ordained accomplices in the racist crime against humanity – in literary terms, “changed the narrator’s position” – and openly and undisguisedly spoke on behalf of the aggressor, like Kremlin loudspeakers. Brink does not mention the Russians in his post precisely because it is written “from their side”, in the literal sense – “on behalf of the missile” (even without the expressions of sympathy to the families of the deceased that are obligatory for a diplomat!), and is translated very simply – “Ukrainians, your children have been killed again, stop resisting!”
(And that is why my mental reaction in response is cold, angry and lightning fast – “so that you, s@ko, crawl over your own people like that woman in Kryvyi Rih!”)
If anyone still doubts that Trump’s technocratic fascism and Putin’s Chekist imperialism are twins, try to follow the rhetoric not of Trump himself – it is mostly “white noise” – but of his functionaries: you will be surprised to what extent it is “written off to the Kremlin”, and not only in the matter of the war in Ukraine.
Or, as it is said in the Proverbs of Solomon – “The wicked are taken captive by their own iniquities, and in the bonds of their own sin they fall” (5:22).
And “rusha” – delenda est (“must be destroyed”).
Oksana ZABUZHKO, writer, feminist literary critic, poet, essayist, laureate of the Shevchenko Prize, publicist, native of Lutsk.
“Volyn”
A well-known native of Volyn: “May you, c@ko, crawl over your own like that woman in Kryvyi Rih!”
(“FB”). — “In the name of a rocket” – how a change in narrative turns diplomats into Kremlin loudspeakers
Kremlin loudspeakers. My first, instinctive reaction to the post of the American envoy about Kryvyi Rih was very, very bad. So unkind that I got scared myself. And I wondered – what was it about that post that made me (and all Ukrainians) so angry?
