Once again, war is at our gates! Actual war, complete with bombs, shooting, the injured, the dead, the anguish, the displacements. And the capital cities of the free world, condemning, denouncing, punishing, but leaving the Ukrainian soldiers on their own: with no brothers or sisters in arms from elsewhere in reinforcement.
War and Peace: these two faces of the history of humanity provide the title of one of the greatest novels ever published. It took its author five years to write. It...