Putin is an aging dinosaur!

Glory to Ukraine! Echo opinion published in the Modesto Bee, in California.

Vladimir Putin is old and aging. 

Putin was born on 7 October 1952, in Russia

Obviously, Vladimir Putin cannot kill the resilient UKRAINE YOUTH SPIRIT!

Russian President Vladimir Putin united the political parties within Ukraine, united the European Union and the entire democratic world. He has turned IT workers and housewives into soldiers, and made an enemy of a neighbor whose people share much in common. Internationally, a volunteer militia, most with no Ukrainian ties, has volunteered to travel to the Ukraine and help them fight for freedom. It won’t matter if Russia conquers Ukraine militarily — their spirit will never be conquered. The younger people escaping to other countries will never forget. Even should they lose, it might take years or decades for the people of Ukraine to recover their country, but they will.

Younger people in the world have more in common with each other than they have with those of their parents’ generation. 

Moreover, the wide use of English and technology has created a more homogeneous, more tolerant, more interconnected “youth world.” The multiple avenues of information available now make it difficult for dictatorships to control news and to create biased perspectives of world events. Dreams of some sort of expansionist vision from aging dinosaurs like Putin have no appeal to the educated, upward-bound youth of this modern world.

Calvin Yost, Turlock, a city in Stanislaus County, California.