Interesting that the last comment on here was 18th May. How quickly the most cataclysmic event in Europe since WW2 becomes normalised.
That’s one possible reason for silence, but I wonder whether some others might feel as I do: totally aghast at what Russia has unleashed on Ukraine, and unable to think of anything to contribute that wouldn’t be trite and/or founded in deep ignorance/innocence of matters of such gravity.
It’s easy to whack the Germans, but our own recent history, in providing a cosy nest for oligarchs and a safe place for their stolen gold, is deeply suspect, and if you look at the actions of numerous other countries they too betray a failure to foresee that they were creating the environment in which Putin could perceive that he could grab Ukraine with impunity. Perhaps the entire leadership of the western world should issue a humble apology? But, what that would achieve I have no idea. They’ve already learned their lesson, the very hard way.