Tv information applications usually name on retired generals, colonels and the occasional lieutenant colonel to touch upon the struggle in Ukraine. They opine, they speculate, they predict. None I’ve seen seems silly, intemperate or unthoughtful. But not one I do know of predicted the unconventional flaws in Russia’s army or the prowess and braveness of the Ukrainian military and volunteers.
It’s a disgrace tv information producers have been unable to name in a retired Russian lieutenant who fought within the Crimean Struggle and was available for the practically year-long siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55—a fellow named Leo Tolstoy. He may have set us all straight on how troublesome it’s to debate struggle, an irrational enterprise, on fully rational phrases. “Man can’t obtain greater than a sure perception into the correlation between the lifetime of the bee and different manifestations of life,” Tolstoy wrote towards the shut of “Struggle and Peace.” “And the identical is true with regard to the ultimate function of historic characters and nations.”
