Civilians are more powerful than Militians.
While headlines scream conflict and war, too much because publishers pay for headlines of conflict and war, there are two journalists finding friendship and peace from the arid east of Europe and traveling west across old Russia. It must be a cheap ticket for their editor to authorize, but the important thing is they are finding what we know: There is more friendship and peace in the world than there is conflict and war.
They stopped in the oldest territory colonized by the Soviet and listened to the crooning of old love ballads as two hefty middle aged women are dancing with a Turk.
“It was a charming scene of the sort that is probably played out most nights across Russia’s provincial towns and cities…”
Where’s the poster? We can sell it to Kurds. And give the Turk a medal.