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Ukraine

A senseless murder factory

WAR: To force conscripts onto a battlefield like the one in Ukraine, no authority has any moral right to carry out. The Geneva Conventions were proposed by idealists but adopted by old domineering men. Now the most important thing is peace.
Tage Siboni -

Able to speak the truth in the midst of the stiffest headwinds

GERMANY: Sahra Wagenknecht gives many Germans – her former 'compatriots' in East Germany – an opportunity to be heard by a party. Wagenknecht's peacekeeping efforts could prevent an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine towards a major European war. Here in connection with the election in September.
Lars Thor Smith -

The war

FRED: Linn Stalsberg identifies in his new book that accepting war as a human normal state is one of the great danger signals today. We have become accustomed to the idea that war is a necessity, and that war can be morally required on top of that. At the same time, religion is often used cynically as a tool to promote a warlike development – ​​this extends from Pope Urban to Putin and Netanyahu to Hamas.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Not here, and not anymore

The Russia-Georgia war in 2008 was to show that the NATO expansion eastward limit had been reached. With the Ukraine crisis of 2013 – 15, it was exceeded. 
Aslak Storaker -

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