“During the first two weeks of the war, I had the impression that art was only a dream, that I had only dreamed these twenty years of my professional life. And that art at all is powerless and ephemeral compared to the ruthless machinery of war that destroys civilian cities and human lives. Today I don’t think that way anymore, and I see that every artistic gesture makes us visible, and our voices audible.” - Zhanna Kadyrova After fleeing from Kyiv and finding shelter in the

Today is Liberation Day in Italy. Seventy-seven years later, I am mindful of its importance and continued relevance. To mark this anniversary, I have decided to take aim at those people who, with an inexplicable air of badly concealed annoyance, pontificate that Ukraine 'should just give up already' and surrender a part of its own country to the Russian invaders so they don't get massacred and, far more importantly, so we don't get dragged into a 3rd world war. What a nuisanc