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CONFLICT (UKRAINE)

Any open, armed conflict between two or more nations or states – normally results in broken lives and destroyed towns and cities. Those directly involved as combatants experience physical or mental injury – but the larger populace – be they young or old – are unavoidably drawn into contact with the ‘side effects’ of a war.

These effects can include rumour – that corrodes one’s well being – enforced confinement, displacement or evacuation – along with the erasure of normality.

They also bring with them the imposition of curfew, recruitment or rationing – propaganda and the editing of reality – a fog of apprehension or misunderstanding that breeds prejudice towards not only the enemy but others, who may also have been caught up within the spread of conflict and become refugees.

Ukraine is currently learning to live with such a situation and also, in some areas, having to respond to the demands of an invading state that seeks to ‘free’, indoctrinate and ‘re-educate’.

Such tactics are used in order to erode ‘identity’ – to help enforce a change in the established social and cultural systems – to overcome any ‘silent’ resistance and enforce ‘acceptance’.