WHO MOVES TO UKRAINE IN WARTIME? WE DO!

WHO MOVES TO UKRAINE IN WARTIME? WE DO!

Ah, Life! Proverbially brief, gentle viewers. Even if you live for a century and gather stores of wisdom and experience along the way, what are those hundred years compared to the span of human history? The blink of an eye. What are they compared to the span of the history of the world? The universe? The blink of an blink of an blink of an… etc.

And so, being philosophical about it all, cheerfully ignoring the numerous warnings about the probable brevity of our lives should we choose to do so, we moved from the “Land of the Free” to “War-Torn Ukraine.” Folly? Madness? We explain – you decide.

Finally: one of the two of us insists on being called MR. EAST from now on, and explains his reasons for this. Convincing? Compelling? He explains – you decide.

#ukrainelife #ukraine #ukrainewar #україна #ukrainetravel

The channels mentioned in the video are:

Rick Steves:
https://www.youtube.com/@RickStevesEuropeOfficial

Bald and Bankrupt:
https://www.youtube.com/@baldandbankrupt

Drew Binsky:
https://www.youtube.com/@drewbinsky

and, in case you didn’t already know, Mr. Beast:
https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast

423 million subscribers and counting. We have some catching up to do…

The two classic travel books mentioned in the video are:

Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/323054/black-lamb-and-grey-falcon-by-rebecca-west/

Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty:
Incredibly, this classic appears to be out of print. That’s what secondhand books shops are for.

Our music is by:

Ravel, Debussy, Tom Watson, and others. It’s public domain in the U.S. and taken from the Internet Archive: archive.org

Subtitles offered in: English, Українська, Русский, Español, Tiếng Việt

OUR SUBTITLES ARE NOT MACHINE-TRANSLATED. Mr. East did the English and Valentyna did the Ukrainian & Russian. Thank you to our international friends for the help with the others!

These videos can’t be made without the help of caffeine. If you’d like to buy us a coffee:
buymeacoffee.com/eastofthewest

Photo credits from Wikimedia Commons:

Simon West
Gérald Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0

Rupert Friend
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0

Rebecca West
Madame Yévonde, CC BY-SA 3.0

Arabia Deserta
Google, CC BY-SA 4.0

Mr. Beast
Steven Khan, CC BY 4.0

Drew Binsky
Drew Binsky, CC BY-SA 4.0

Rick Steves
CarlosManzanoPHOTOs, CC BY-SA 3.0

Robert Persons
Jacob Neefs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“Bald”
Helpaeatcontu, CC BY-SA 3.0

O. Usyk
President Of Ukraine from Україна, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons