Monkey With a Hand Grenade
Posted on AllSides September 23rd, 2022
From The Right
OPINION
My favorite quote about the war in Ukraine comes not from Volodomyr Zelensky—though the Ukrainian president had some bangers—but from a local official in the country’s south. “We are fighting against f---ing idiots. It’s good for us,” he told the Guardian last month before the Ukrainian army’s lightning advance in the northeast. “But they have nuclear weapons. Russia is like a monkey with a hand grenade. It’s a problem for the whole world.”
That metaphor resonates, and not just because its evocative absurdity appeals to a writer’s sensibility. It’s because...
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