The Height Of Over-Reaction

may not yet have been reached
in the now-former Ukraine,
though all civil life there is gone.

It has fled with the over 3,000,000 refugees
whose urge to escape arose in an instant,
leaving neighbouring countries to hastily
assemble places for Ukrainians to stay in,
and to work out their short term futures.

Oddly, as I write the internet still works in The Ukraine.
Perhaps the internet is harder to destroy than we think.
I can't imagine, though, who will be using it most
when the war is so against daily life which is so fragile. 

And in Russia millions who are uncomfortably poor
may yet be forced to return to a pre-internet life
as ease of Western technology Russians used to enjoy
goes West again, as the sanctions that most hurt the poor
'have to be applied' to loosen Putin's grip on his military.

One thing will be sure; blogging will seem unimportant.