Ukraine

I'm seeing quite a few reports regarding how badly Russia has treated Ukrainian civilians.

I don't like the idea of war, especially with the possibility of nukes, but after the Holocaust the world said 'Never again'...

And then proceeded to find ways to look the other way anytime anything occurred that might force governments to act.

I've heard people questioning why Ukraine is getting more attention, when other places (to take a very old example, let's say Rwanda) were ignored... And there's some validity to those criticisms. But more in the sense of 'we should have cared just as much then' than 'so we should continue to ignore unpleasant truths now'.

Like, I don't like where that logic leads, not with the possibility of wwiii and nukes hang over us.

But I like even less the alternative... It validates the belief that our values don't truly exist. That they can be bought, or will be bent in the face of a strong enough bully. 

More importantly, the kind of world Russia shows they're willing to create sucks.

It seems, no matter how much I dislike it, that we're reaching a fork in the road, where we have to decide who we are and what we stand for.