Russian grandmothers, mothers, wives, girlfriends, and daughters, you can stop this war. You need only tell your father, husband, boyfriend, or son – who is a member of Putin’s jackbooted police force – that you intend to be on the frontlines of those protesting his war.
He is not going to arrest you and, if he has any balls or common sense, he won’t standby as his comrades arrest you. Also, make clear that if he is sent to another city to arrest women there, he should beware that Putin will have his police doing to you what you are doing to them.
This is the best way to answer Alexei Navalny’s clarion call for mass civil disobedience to force Putin to stop this war. And, trust me, it would be far more effective than the Lysistrata strategy of merely denying sex, which the women of Greece deployed in the Aristophanes farce to stop the Peloponnesian War.
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