I stand corrected by a reader’s wisdom

Check out the email I got tonight from ‘C’: Saker,I felt your despair and thought about what to say that might help you stay strong. Please allow me to remind you of two things that you know to be true:One, are the people of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kirkov and Dnipopetrovsk, Mariupol and Odessa not essentially the same people?Two, have these people not surprised you many times in the past few months,