EDITORIAL - Now more urgent than ever

The other day marked exactly four months since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Right now things are more or less at a stalemate, with the latest development being Ukraine ordering its troops to withdraw from the city of Sievierodonetsk.

Reports about the latest development in that seemingly never-ending seesaw of attack and counterattack has become a staple of the daily news that many of us now ignore it.

Which is a cause for concern. The longer this goes on, the more people will grow tired of hearing news about this particular conflict.

If there is such a thing as a pandemic fatigue there is also such a thing as war news fatigue. People will become weary of hearing about what is happening there and about what Ukraine wants from the outside world. Mind you, they will become weary of it not because they are selfish, but because they can get tired of always hearing bad or distressing news.

There are also other pressing concerns and events. Like the start of a new administration here, the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, and the still-ongoing pandemic in other parts of the world. The war in Ukraine isn’t the only impactful thing happening right now.

However, the longer this war goes on the more it will be in favor of Russia. While it is true that Ukraine has the resolve and backing of many countries, Russia just has two million more of everything their enemies have.

This advantage in the number of men, arms, and armaments is actually what allowed them to drive the Nazi war machine all the way back to Berlin in World War II. It was not their superior tactics or training, they just had more of everything, especially expendable soldiers to throw in wave after wave against the enemy. Ukraine doesn’t have those numbers.

The need to bring an end to the war in Ukraine --of course preferably an end where Ukraine gets to keep its independence and territory while Russia gets pushed back to its borders-- is now more urgent than ever, before the world grows weary of it and forgets or ignores it altogether.

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