David Ignatius on our war-ravaged world!

I dunno about you but I am forced to think about the "unthinkable" -- now!

WAPO’s David Ignatius, in my opinion, jumps the shark about how “violence is ravaging our planet” — meaning war — in his column today. The piece is full of a great deal of such exaggerations that are unhelpful and a bit weird for him.

We have two serious wars right now: one between sovereign nations (although Ukraine, in the past, belonged to Russia within the Soviet Union, so it’s not a clean narrative) and one between a government and an insurgency (Israel and Hamas). One inter-state war and one civil conflict. Plenty of casualties, by today’s historically very low standard, and definitely some economic repercussions, but far from “ravaging the planet” — a decidedly misleading phrase that implies it’s on the same scale and scope and impact as … say, climate change, which is truly ravaging the planet.

[“There, there, Baby Earth! We’ll get around to your high temperature once we solve these pesky wars!” — THE GLOBAL NORTH SINCE FOREVER]