Go tell that fox: Ukraine, war and lies
The lust for human domination, power and land has not been far from the headlines in recent weeks. It has been eighteen days since those first bombs fell out of the sky in Ukraine, bringing to an end a peace which – with some exceptions – had fallen across Europe since the cold war and given us all a false sense of security. Today, Russian forces continue to advance on Kyiv, and meanwhile the West looks on in horror, yet also in impotence. The fear of the aggressor keeps us away from the battlefield – not wanting to trigger what could be the conflagration of all conflagrations. Yet as we watch on, civilians are killed in their beds, and maternity hospitals are bombed. There is nothing, of course, that shows quite how shielded and Eurocentric we are as a society, than the way we have responded to this war on our doorstep. For so many, war is a historical entity – war is something that happened, to other people, in a different age. Yet for so many people in the world today, war is s...