RUSSIAN UKRANIAN WAR

When War Becomes Normal and Humanity Becomes Selective

The world today appears increasingly comfortable with war. Conflicts dominate headlines, military briefings are broadcast daily, and political leaders speak in strategic language that often masks the human cost beneath it. Yet the most important question is rarely asked plainly: where does humanity stand when violence becomes routine?

In the Middle East, the suffering of Palestinians has continued for decades, and in recent years it has intensified dramatically. Civilians—women, children, and the elderly—have paid the highest price. Homes are destroyed, hospitals overwhelmed, and access to water, electricity, and medical care repeatedly disrupted. What troubles many people around the world is not only the suffering itself, but the unequal response to it. Civilian deaths in some regions provoke immediate outrage and action, while similar suffering elsewhere is explained away, delayed, or justified under the language of “security” and “self-defence.”

This inconsistency has deeply damaged global trust. Human life should never be valued differently based on geography, race, or political alliances. When civilian suffering is selectively condemned, moral authority weakens, and resentment grows.

Meanwhile, the war in Europe has already demonstrated how no conflict remains local in a globalised world. The war in Ukraine has disrupted energy supplies, increased food prices, strained global supply chains, and contributed to inflation far beyond Europe’s borders. Sanctions imposed with strategic intent have also rebounded, placing pressure on ordinary citizens through higher living costs and energy insecurity. These effects remind us that modern wars are not fought only with weapons, but through economies, food systems, and daily survival.

More worrying still is how war itself is becoming normalised. Conflict is discussed in analytical terms—territory, influence, deterrence—while human suffering is reduced to numbers. At the same time, enormous resources continue to be channelled into weapons development and military expansion, while food security, environmental protection, and social welfare receive far less urgency. This imbalance reflects a troubling shift in global priorities.

History teaches us that wars are rarely borne by those who decide them. It is ordinary people who suffer: families who lose homes, children who lose futures, elderly people who endure fear and deprivation. When shelves begin to empty, when fuel becomes scarce, and when food prices rise beyond reach, political rhetoric offers little comfort. In such moments, wealth and power lose meaning, and basic survival becomes the true measure of security.

This is why policymakers and decision-makers must pause and reflect. Leadership is not measured by strength alone, but by restraint, empathy, and moral clarity. Power should be used to protect life, not to normalise destruction. Dialogue, justice, and accountability are harder paths than war, but they are the only ones that prevent endless cycles of suffering.

Finally, there is a responsibility that cannot be ignored: the responsibility of the media. Media organisations shape public understanding, emotion, and memory. Reporting must go beyond official statements and strategic narratives. Journalists must report what they see, but also what they perceive—the human reality behind the events. This does not mean taking sides, but it does mean refusing to sanitise suffering or apply double standards.

Truthful reporting requires courage: the courage to show civilian pain wherever it occurs, to question power respectfully but firmly, and to remind audiences that behind every conflict are human lives that matter equally.

The world does not lack intelligence, technology, or information. What it risks losing is compassion. If wars continue to be treated as acceptable tools and suffering as collateral detail, the future will not be defined by peace or progress, but by moral failure.

History will not remember who spoke the loudest or possessed the strongest weapons. It will remember who chose humanity when it mattered most.

an unnecessary war we may called but the suffering of Palestinian supported wholly by the US and UK and the rest, to slaughter women and children and elderly is what? Just because whites are not being killed.... its OK by your standard. 

Well its not worth reading anyway. Not worth elaborating too.

The war in Europe has already give some effect. Food security and petrol/gas. But your immoral scientist is still busy modifying your virus. Well if your citizens do not know where is UK France and Dubai.... you can go ahead, keep on telling lies. They don't even know geography

Prime Minister Tun Mahathir once said, US should be using its money to green their desert. But being arrogant, u r instead busy bombing other countries.

We saw in the media, shelves in US shops is already partly empty of milk powder. More to come, no worry. The world will face similar phenomena v soon.

I m worry too, I have only few cassava plants and some coconuts. 7 to 9 chickens. What do u have? Money? What can u buy if all shelf is empty.

Go ahead... create more war.

TODAY (August 2022), sanctions by NATO boomerang back to you. Winter is coming and Germany is going to suffer because you need extra gas to keep warm.

Nobody want to send troops to Ukraine because Russia is too strong. Death is imminent.