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I’d like to share with you an excerpt from the book "Hemingway Knows Nothing" by Ukrainian Defender, poet, writer Artur Dron.

Artur Dron is 24 years old and has defended Ukraine for over three years. Recently, he published a collection of essays called "Hemingway Knows Nothing" - his reflections about war, faith, his brothers-in-arms, life and death. This book made a very strong impression on me, so I've subtitled a video of Artur Dron reading one of the essays himself for you. It's a longer one, but I do think it is worth watching.

This essay is called Trench God and in it, Artur reflects on faith during the war.

"It’s easy to blame wars on God - after all, among all of us, He’s the only one who’s almighty. But it wasn’t God who drove tanks into Northern Saltivka in Kharkiv. It wasn’t God who sent a bullet into Tourist’s chest. It wasn’t God who shelled hundreds of churches in eastern Ukraine. It wasn’t God who destroyed Bakhmut and Mariupol.

People did that. About 143 million of them. Russians. They made the choice to destroy Ukrainians. They crossed Ukraine’s borders with their military equipment. They kill our people and destroy our homes. Every war is started and waged by people. This one - by Russians.

This is not a divine test, not a trial of national maturity, or any of those things people say. It is a crime - against life, against nature, against humanity, against God Himself. The consequence of someone’s choice to kill and steal. War is the opposite of God.

>part 1