The Debatable Land #14: Grim Days for Ukraine; A Bleak Future for Russia
The first casualty of war is the notion there is a single truth.
Seven Days Which Changed The World
The war is only a week old but we may already say, even in the midst of geopolitical transformation, that it is in significant respects quite unlike previous wars. All wars happen in real time but none has been reported in real time like this one. None, in fact, has spawned so much information - much of it conflicting or confused - across so many formats in so little time and never before has news from the front been so widely shared on such an unfiltered - and often unverified - basis.
It is not easy to impose order on this and harder still to craft a narrative of the war’s progress. In fact there is no unifying narrative; there are many stories and they contradict each other. The first casualty of war is the notion there is a single truth.
To wit: