Commentary
Our world is obsessed with saving lives. We survived COVID lockdowns imposed by governments claiming to keep us safe. Teams of burly footballers dropped to their knees because Black Lives Matter. The presumption of innocence wilts under the strain of laws designed to keep women safe.
After all that posturing, it is odd we just watch as hundreds of thousands of young Russian men are being rounded up as cannon fodder. Somehow concern about keeping them safe simply isn’t on the public agenda.
Their lives don’t matter. They are just ordinary men who have found themselves at the very bottom of the intersectionality totem pole. To many they are the enemy, the bad guys, even though most of these young Russians haven’t a clue about why their lives are to be sacrificed….