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The War You Should Support
Israel, Ukraine, Sudan…and The Wars You Should Support
You have to choose a side
The war begun by Putin against Ukraine is going into horrible, bloody years now. There is a fresher war in Gaza, as Israel takes on Palestine. There are lesser publicized wars, such as in Sudan and elsewhere. We also have drug wars, civil war rebellions, terrorist strikes, ethnic conflicts, and insurgencies.
We could easily enough, have had an insurgency in the USA that led to a greater conflagration. Maybe, we still will. For now, that one is just keeping warriors enraged online and selling ads as people take sides and fire their twitter fingers. (I am still going to call them Twitter fingers because speech wars just drag out into more turmoil and confusion than they are worth.) People easily buy into the polarity of taking “sides.”
You are told you have to choose a side. Let’s deconstruct that idea.
In all of our stupid wars, the biggest war of all simmers on the back burner.
And it’s getting hotter every day.
We, humanity, are in a war against nature. Fighting ourselves, heating the planet, and finding useful targets to aim at, each and every day. Meanwhile biodiversity is dwindling, tipping points are being…
