CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: DAILY MOTORCADE every morning they shut down Sahaidichnoh

CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: DAILY MOTORCADE

every morning they shut down Sahaidichnoho street so that the presidential motorcade does not sit vulnerably in traffic.

Then six or seven cars pass in formation.

The people I talk to seem to think its a privilege. But the taxi drivers who have served in the military know the reason: the cheapest and easiest way to kill a politician is in a car with an RPG.

It’s my daily reminder that a government should fear its people. Not people fear their government.

And that politicians should not give them reason to.