really weird watching this one from afar. i know nothing at all about that part of the world or russian-european politics. so i have no way to understand the headlines i skim over on the guardian. the two people i talk to in kyiv are totally blasé about it. hence why i'm still supposed to be heading out there.
think that there is more than a little titilation or however you spell it and excitement in 'our' reaction to it, and that feeds back a bit into how the guardian and everyone else reports on it. it's been ages since 'we' were in a war, and this one feels new, in that it's not happening in the middle east, it's quite a new thing, a kind of retro thing with white people on both sides, land borders, troops amassing, fighting in the snow, commentary on 'while the ground is frozen'. but also, importantly, its happening far enough away that it doesn't feel like its happening to us.