Can there be a sadder, more cruel irony than the fact that armies of aggression are, in the main, made up of young, poorly educated males with few prospects who will fight to preserve the very system that has put them in their predicament? Can anything be more surreal than fighting to return home to … Continue reading
There is a level of uninformed ignorance and desperation involved in the willingness to take a weapon of war into a country unprovoked. This was true in Germany and Japan in WW I and II, in the Vietnam war, in the Iraq war, and it is true now in Ukraine. A despot cannot make war … Continue reading