Thoughts on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – Rick Steves’ Travel Blog
Currently is a profoundly unfortunate day. Russia’s intense motion is heartbreaking for the demise, suffering, and economic turmoil it will result in in Ukraine and, indirectly at the very least, past. Below at Rick Steves’ Europe, we hope that a diplomatic option can be found and peace will return to that fragile and long-suffering component of our world.
Our mission at RSE is to support Us residents greater know and have an understanding of our neighbors by vacation. But when we deliver vacationers to a further country, we also deliver their dollars — pounds that would support Putin’s aggression. As a result, as of these days, we have canceled all 2022 excursions that consist of a quit in Russia.
Of system, we will retain a shut eye on unfolding activities and observe any vacation impacts by the rest of Europe. But it is essential to hold geographic realities in intellect and keep in mind that a war in Ukraine is as considerably from our European holiday vacation dreams as a war in Guatemala would be from Texas or Florida. For 40 yrs now, we have lived, labored, and traveled by means of lots of periods of tragic warfare in lands far from where by we direct our tours (and some nearer). And at this time, we see no reason to improve the relaxation of our journey and touring strategies.
The tragic fact unfolding in Ukraine only reminds me how critical it is for People in america to keep on traveling and to do so in a way that can make us greater and far more engaged citizens of our planet. I’m traveling to Europe future month for a 40-day trip by a dozen good metropolitan areas from London to Athens — and I’m proud that hundreds of my fellow vacationers will knowledge the European journey of their desires while getting abundant understanding encounters considerably from dwelling on a 2022 Rick Steves tour.
In the meantime, let us be thankful for our blessings, aid our nation’s leaders as they do their finest to navigate this crisis, and continue to keep the troubled corners of our globe (Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, and additional) in our thoughts and prayers.
—Rick
