In light of current [waves hands], when this re-crossed my desk yesterday, I was given pause:

...the war in Ukraine acts as a warning bell for our own crumbling society. Institutions...speak of love, but rarely of the implications of love...Other institutions...simply join the cacophony of fear and hate, which they dress up in the words of morality or perceived religious imperatives.

An empire that no longer lives...strikes, kills in the name of its impossible return

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