It's imparative to our democracy that people ask questions! I hope you don't think I'm suggestions you shouldn't! The reason you're getting a bit of negative feedback is you don't seem to have read much in the history of war. Again, I don't want to suggest you shouldn't ask questions!

Plato (Socrates) wrote near the end of the Peloponeasian war. In the Republic Plato tries to solve the problem of democracies getting into war because the public doesn't educate itself. So he comes up with the "Philosopher Kings." They would be Harvard graduates today who served both in the military and in the local governments. To me, we're facing the same problem today. Democracy isn't all about everyone asking questions. That's an important part of it, for sure. It must have the right questions posed and answered. That's where we're falling apart. Too much time spent on questions educated people already know the answers to.

Like you (I believe), I find the Vogue photo shoots distasteful. They romantacize war. This is a philosophical issue that permeates the subject. Your story reads as if you think people just thought up these things today. We all need to start from the beginning. So I'm happy you're getting involved. You're doing more than 90% of other Americans. So THANKS! As one human to another.

The people I find interesting about the Ukrainian situation are Stephen Kotkin, Vlad Vexler (YT), Stanimir Dobrev and for day to day, here on Medium, Nadin Brzezinski.

I write a lot on Ukraine though I knew very little like you in the beginning. I try to take my weird thought process and apply it to what I learn. I also have a lot of experience in business, etc.

I hadn't heard of the Vogue thing, so your story attracted my attention. So you added to my knowledge--thanks!