War in Ukraine – Part 2, moments in 2022

Moments in the war year 2022

(DE - April/May 2022) On 07 April 2022, on the 43rd day of the war in Ukraine, I started to record all the information, impressions, thoughts, reflections, analyses, feelings, and doubts that moved me as a fellow contemporary during these days and weeks, even months.

The war is taking its course, and no one knows when it will end. I won’t write about it until the end of this war because that could take years. I am not interested in documenting the course of the war or analysing all the facts about weapons, front lines, strategies and plans of the warring parties and their allies. That is the task of researchers in various fields and areas of specialisation.

Historians will gather facts and analyse the prehistory, the course, the background, the motives, the interests etc. Then, in retrospect, it may become more apparent what it was all about. Or the scientific community will disagree, and the respective theories will be disputed. That is exciting! That is enlightening! You can learn from it – if you want to.

But that is of no use to critical contemporaries these days.

As a contemporary, I have to live with blinkers.

The concern that drives me is that we contemporaries might be influenced by one-sided information or information gaps in the interests of the powers that be.