“This brutal violence was unprovoked, unnecessary, irrational and inhumane,” writes the chief military chaplain for the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in a guest essay for The Economist
A WAR ALWAYS has its own philosophy, and every philosophy starts with a set of honest questions. Since the early morning of February 24th my city, my country, my world and I have been plunged into such an intensely dark abyss that it may take a lifetime for the next generation to find the light at the end of the tunnel.
We, intelligent and responsible citizens of the global village, must ask ourselves how such levels of inhumanity are possible in Europe in the 21st century. At this moment in our history we need answers—as does our common future. It may become even a new mission for today’s intellectuals to seek and find out how we arrived at this moment. They may uncover areas of politics or sociology that we have forgotten in the decades since the great wars of the last century.
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