JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - RUSSIA'S INVASION OF AND ATTEMPT TO SUBJUGATE UKRAINE AND ITS PEOPLE. PART 7.

'War is not a madness that leaders should force upon their people deceptively. fter all, what can be worse than demanding that your people should sacrifice their lives and livelihoods for a leader's delusions of grandeur, which is neither realisable, or, if it is, the realising of it is worse than the pre-existing reality?' But without first considering how it/we are going to get back out of the river or hole, or what hazards might be in them. Now, we can understand and even appreciate how a people, a nation that has been attacked can or might seemingly make their first response an 'emotional one.' For example, respond with great anger and a desire to inflict maximum damage on the aggressor, in their attempt to, first defend themselves, and, secondly, punish the aggressor. That is, as we might conclude, 'human nature', even though we can detect examples of it in other primates. However, this is not a defence which those who were not the known t...