Well... this started as a news "brief", honest.
But deeper analysis was called for when I went a-sourcing a few claims. The problem with this week's failed ceasefire resolution is the error it continues to represent:
We keep acting like words can bypass the incredibly challenging factors shaping power in war.
So today's piece explores the lack of practical alternatives, regional instability, the challenge of courageous restraint, and more reasons suffering will go on.
https://onlysky.media/mclark/the-uns-failed-resolution-and-the-problem-of-power-in-war/
I suppose you saw this in yesterday's Guardian. I couldn't feel more like tearing my hair out if I tried.
As someone who's been following the wars we don't "care" about in the West for some time, it's been deeply demoralizing to see reactions to Ukraine/Russia & Israel/Gaza - because when the atrocity finally hits a place that matters to us, most don't have the vocab necessary.
Tigray was a HUGE turning point, because even major NGOs couldn't get in. *That's* when you know there's no shared trust on which to sustain civil society.
Climate change *will* make this worse.
We're so broken. 💔
@MLClark @LiseL And who weeps for the Uyghurs? Where are the mass protests in front of Chinese embassies? In the Financial Times the other day there was a long piece of how the CCP is systematically "Sinoizing" Muslim culture, changing mosques to have "Chinese" architectural features. Where's the outrage from the Muslim street for this? Where are the college students and their slogans?