Tackling Putin

I’ll bet you feel helpless like me – that there is nothing we can do to stop this war. We can only sit back and watch events while hoping it will end soon.

But perhaps there is something we can do. Remember Covid? Which part of the daily news impacted you most? Not the number of cases of infection, nor the percentage of the population who had been vaccinated, or boosted. It was the number of people who had died. If we want to shame Putin into stopping the invasion of Ukraine, we need the whole world to be aware how many unnecessary deaths he has caused and is causing. Deaths of ordinary civilians, adults and children, as well as the deaths of soldiers, both Ukrainian and Russian.

It will take a visual image that has massive impact and is constantly updated. Something much more powerful than a graph or a collection of hearts stuck on a wall. Perhaps red crosses painted on the roads outside the Kremlin, and/or outside the UN building or the Vatican. We have seen too many views of collections of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles taken by satellites from above, but perhaps we could use the same viewpoint to show the accumulating deaths – how about crosses of red painted on a snowfield? It has to be dramatic and capable of being seen from above and shown daily around the World on TV.

I am not a fan of Facebook or similar media outlets, but perhaps someone with the know-how and imagination can think of how to use the media in a dramatic way to bring the World’s attention to the unnecessary and tragic deaths in this unnecessary war – Putin’s war.