My newsletter set reading records when the Ukraine war started, now some four and a a half months ago. If you look around and see what people talk about, read about, it is not too hard to see that the Russian invasion and its concurrent devastation is slipping from the proverbial front pages. Most people have moved on. The war has been labelled a quagmire that will go on for a while, much like Vietnam and Iraq and apart from the occasional dramatic updates from the battleground it is hard to keep engaging the world. The Ukrainians themselves have noticed this too:
It's still on, the war
It's still on, the war
It's still on, the war
My newsletter set reading records when the Ukraine war started, now some four and a a half months ago. If you look around and see what people talk about, read about, it is not too hard to see that the Russian invasion and its concurrent devastation is slipping from the proverbial front pages. Most people have moved on. The war has been labelled a quagmire that will go on for a while, much like Vietnam and Iraq and apart from the occasional dramatic updates from the battleground it is hard to keep engaging the world. The Ukrainians themselves have noticed this too: