The Reality, and the Politics, of the Ukraine War

“Fight the numbness,” some of us have said since the beginning. Resist the temptation to get numb to the daily assault of Russian forces on Ukrainians.

A report from last week begins,

At least three people were killed and another six injured in a Russian missile attack on a five-story residential building in the city of Zaporizhzhya overnight on March 2, the National Police of Ukraine said in a post on Facebook.

Eleven people, including a pregnant woman, were rescued from the rubble.

Rescuers evacuated 20 people from the rest of the...