The War in Ukraine Is Just Beginning
Conflicts, though typically started easily, can be brutal, intractable, and difficult to end.
If conflicts in places such as Ethiopia, Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, and Yemen have proved anything, it’s that wars are easy to start, but are also brutal, intractable, and difficult to end. The fickle nature of the international media means that protracted conflicts quickly lose the world’s attention, if they ever had it to begin with.
At the moment, has riveted the world, drawing more attention than the ongoing slaughters in other nations—a that has been widely noted. But that gap in coverage is likely to become even more striking the longer the conflict continues, because the factors
