World War III might be worth having
Remember the Holocaust? Now 44 million seem marked for destruction, and the powerful people in the world who could actually do something are sitting and watching
Mar 4, 2022
As of this writing, it is the ninth day of the Russian assault on Ukraine. An unknown number of people have been killed, a larger number have been wounded, and still a larger number have been traumatized for life. A million human beings have been displaced and have left Ukraine as refugees of war, having been exposed to the most extreme and adverse circumstances one can experience.
People have taken cover and have slept in subway stations. They have watched their surroundings be blown to smithereens, reduced to rubble by relentless shelling that does not discriminate between military and civilian targets, between the army base, the kindergarten or the hospital. Russian troops have encircled their largest cities. For days, a 40-mile-long convoy of death has stretched out towards Kyiv. Assassination teams have come for the democratically-elected president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Some of these came from a mercenary group called Wagner, others would-be jihadists from Chechnya serving a “warlord” who is loyal to Putin.
President Zelensky shelters in a bunker, asking for help from the civilized world, asking for ammunition, a no-fly zone, military aid so that the invasion can be stopped.
I am not a politician, a military strategist or a diplomat. I lay no claim to expertise in these fields and cannot comprehend the complexity and nuance that might exist at the level of people who need to make policies or military decisions. I belong to the great mass of humanity that does not have a political post nor a commission in any army. Many of us, astonished and enraged at the carnage, feel powerless to do anything but watch this tragedy unfold.
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