all of their certainty is that many of us would have had for our lives, that smaller countries, less powerful countries, do not get invaded by big, noisy, bruiser neighbours. the thing that also struck me is, in myjob i tend to travel a bit, at least pre—covid, and i go to parts of the world where people live with conflict all the time, and we shouldn't forget that. the difference is that this is about europe, it's closer to home, there's that awful phrase, "a first world problem," when people are worrying about things on the internet or something is wrong with... not being able to get the right coffee. yes, first world problems. those today on a day like today take a step back and we get down to hard tax, what we're talking about here is a city — i was in kyivjust a few weeks ago myself —