I apologize to all Plisters for my incessant Ukraine posts. Done.

[Mark Kohut]

I hope this disrespecting of the nature of the Pynchon listserve is
balanced a little by miscellaneous Pynchon-related stuff I've found and
taken the time to post over the years. ...
But I also hardly know who reads anything posted anymore, lately only those
few doing the BE Read and the few on the Ukraine thread. I thought I had
done a couple of interesting Pynchon posts beyond BE that might get a
response but........
Probably the main reason why some, more than a few,  psychologically
healthier than I may be, have left the Plist.
So it goes.

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 12:39 PM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark, I actually had to relegate you to my spam folder, because your
> incessant Ukraine posts were clogging up my inbox. Now, even my spam folder
> is clogged. I think you posted about 70 times last night alone. You're
> harming the p-list with all of this. Please stop.
>
> Best,
> Laura
>
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 12:35 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Heikki,
>>
>> I will stop the Ukraine posting. And arguing with some about Ukraine.  I
>> know it was too much but I wanted to get news down
>> as it happened before IT happened........but this is not the list for
>> that...
>>
>> I will do Pynchon still. If pynchon posts can keep you on, I hope you
>> stay....
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 9:43 AM Heikki R <
>> situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > In Belarus, there are presently at least 1050 political prisoners. Since
>> > the electoral farce of 2020 and the consequent uprising, more than 40000
>> > political arrests have been made. Almost 5000 political trials have been
>> > conducted. All of this has been made possible by Putin’s support. Some
>> > observers were not totally certain whether Putin would continue
>> supporting
>> > the unpopular and heavy-handed Lukashenko. Well, he did, and now we are
>> > witnessing the main reason why he did.
>> >
>> > In November 1939, Putin’s idol Stalin staged a pretext to start a winter
>> > war. (Finland was included in the USSR’s “sphere of influence” in the
>> > Molotov-Ribbentrop pact signed three months earlier.)
>> >
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila
>> >
>> > Now pretexts for another wintery war are in the making.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > For melancholy reasons, I’m withdrawing from this list for an indefinite
>> > time.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 1:10 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Sources within Russia report that Russian media are reporting more and
>> >> more
>> >> often
>> >> on aggressive acts toward Russians in Ukraine. The creation of a
>> defense
>> >> for the invasion is
>> >> escalating. There was a major shelling in the Donbass region which
>> >> resulted
>> >> in one publicly proclaimed
>> >> slow death of a Ukrainian soldier. There was a planned film of an
>> >> exploding
>> >> pipeline, Russian news trucks
>> >> just happened to be there to film Ukraine's surprise explosion. Open
>> >> source
>> >> analysts prove metadata shows Russia
>> >>  filmed scenes of "the evacuation" two days ago, 16th. The day before
>> they
>> >> stepped up shelling and before
>> >> the evacuation was announced.
>> >>
>> >> Others say that Russian actions, firing, along the border toward Kiev
>> are
>> >> up. Way up. No movement into Ukraine yet.
>> >> Most say Kiev being targeted. Rockets to ground troops very active.
>> >> Movement likely along a river to it. New: Russian backed puppet
>> >> governments
>> >> in Donbass announce mobilisation. All men 18-55 barred from leaving.
>> >>
>> >> When a Ukrainian evacuation of a major dangerous area was asked for,
>> only
>> >> 3400 left. Social media posts of
>> >> many, many, who said they would stay and be ready to fight. The Daily
>> >> Beast
>> >> spoke to the head of an orphanage
>> >> responsible for 225 children as they made the dangerous journey to a
>> >> Russian checkpoint.
>> >> “[It’s] a very tiring and stressful day and it is not even over,” Olga
>> >> Volkova said, exasperated.
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>> >
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