2 days Ago By Roger Franklin
I t’s easy to understand the case for peace talks with the Kremlin over the Russo-Ukraine war. War involves the mutual mass killing of law-abiding and decent people on both sides, the costly destruction of property, public expenditures devoted to waste and worse rather than public welfare, the loss of talented and productive people that will damage the futures of warring countries, and the sowing of bitterness on both sides that will encourage future wars. Avoiding or halting these evils is pure common sense.
War can be justified only if it is a plausible alternative to worse things. As a great war leader, Winston Churchill, said once (and often), war is better than slavery. That’s quite a high bar.
What are the evils which justify Ukraine’s resistance and NATO’s support for it? For Ukrainians the evil is not far short of literal slavery if the early wartime actions of the Russian invaders—war crimes, murder, rape, kidnapping of children, abolition of the Ukrainian...
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