Is war good for us? It perhaps sharpens all of us in our challenge to stay alive and make us feel grateful that we, survivors, are indeed alive. It reduces the world’s population so that there is more food, space and other desirable stuff available for the survivors. As I…
Thousands and thousands killed in wars. Soldiers labeled ‘legitimate targets’ and killed civilians referred to as ‘collateral damage’ (if they belong to ‘the enemy’ group). An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Is this the world we want to live in? Ralph and I have had so…
On warfare, propaganda and difficult choices The government of Sweden has now abandoned a 200-year-old strategy to keep out of formal military alliances. There may well be compelling reasons for a change – many politicians argue that there are - but the forced pace of this decision and the lack…
Last time I went to the airport I heard a woman saying to her friend “Isn’t it odd that we managed to put people on the moon before figuring out that it would be a good idea to put wheels on suitcases”. Quite so, I thought. In the 1960s we…
Dear Mr. Putin, Please stop this war before you damage your reputation completely by being responsible for the loss of ever more lives. You are waging a war apparently on the basis of a POSSIBLE threat from the Ukraine and NATO. If there are any grounds for such a threat…