For 20 yrs, I was a TV journalist covering the wars in Central America, the State Dept and the Pentagon. Later I was the spokesperson for the OSCE in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am a child of Holocaust refugees who fled Poland in Sept 1939, and as I obsessively watch TV coverage of the Ukrainian war pretty much around the clock, I picture what it was like for my father and the rest of his family. And I agree with your political and media analyses of this situation. But not that there’s nothing we can do about it.
I now live in southern England, and my disgust with British refugee policy in this case (and all previous ones) led me to help start a campaign to change that policy. It worked and the UK has now opened its doors to Ukrainians fleeing Hell, with the right to work, claim benefits, go to school and remain for at least 3 yrs. It is still a flawed policy and we’re working on that. But we will host refugees in our own home, and about 150,000 Brits stepped up to the plate within 24 hrs of the govt website going live. We can also donate funds to the Ukrainian army, the brewery in Lviv making Molotov cocktails and for protective gear for Ukrainian journalists showing the world what is happening to their country. So at least we can help those displaying a courage we cannot even imagine, and those who will have to return home and rebuild their country. That’s not nothing.
As someone who dealt with and worked in the media for decades, I say this article is absolutely correct. I worked so hard trying to halt pointless international conflicts, and finally realized the wealthy controlled everything, and if you weren't in that tight interlocking circle, you were wasting most of your time. I concluded that human beings were constantly in conflict because they enjoyed it above all else. I've moved to the country to avoid the human conflict as much as possible. Thank you Marc for confirming my decision.
For 20 yrs, I was a TV journalist covering the wars in Central America, the State Dept and the Pentagon. Later I was the spokesperson for the OSCE in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am a child of Holocaust refugees who fled Poland in Sept 1939, and as I obsessively watch TV coverage of the Ukrainian war pretty much around the clock, I picture what it was like for my father and the rest of his family. And I agree with your political and media analyses of this situation. But not that there’s nothing we can do about it.
I now live in southern England, and my disgust with British refugee policy in this case (and all previous ones) led me to help start a campaign to change that policy. It worked and the UK has now opened its doors to Ukrainians fleeing Hell, with the right to work, claim benefits, go to school and remain for at least 3 yrs. It is still a flawed policy and we’re working on that. But we will host refugees in our own home, and about 150,000 Brits stepped up to the plate within 24 hrs of the govt website going live. We can also donate funds to the Ukrainian army, the brewery in Lviv making Molotov cocktails and for protective gear for Ukrainian journalists showing the world what is happening to their country. So at least we can help those displaying a courage we cannot even imagine, and those who will have to return home and rebuild their country. That’s not nothing.
As someone who dealt with and worked in the media for decades, I say this article is absolutely correct. I worked so hard trying to halt pointless international conflicts, and finally realized the wealthy controlled everything, and if you weren't in that tight interlocking circle, you were wasting most of your time. I concluded that human beings were constantly in conflict because they enjoyed it above all else. I've moved to the country to avoid the human conflict as much as possible. Thank you Marc for confirming my decision.
Thank you!