It would be dangerously naive to think the world won’t always have to address trigger-happy leaders…. but we need a better approach..

If you look at the likes of Saddam Hussien and Gaddafi who ended up hiding away in a culvert and met a very undignified death, when it was amply clear that such an ending was very predictable and in Gaddafi’s case, he already had a very recent example. And there are so many of those examples out there. But they perhaps thought they at a point of no return? Such is human pride…

Was it necessary to address the situations Saddam, Gaddafi and others were creating and the wider threat, I think many would say: YES. Will there be others like them? of course. The chap in Syria is an example, even though, he has limited his antics to his own patch and as such, likely to get away with it till his people have had enough.

What is missing, when the world head out on these missions to save humanity, is the kind of financial packages that was assembled to get post-war Germany or Japan back on their feet. If we’re going to go out there and seek to better the lot of these supposedly oppressed people e.g. Syrians, Libyans, Iraqis etc., it has to be done properly and seen through to the end, with huge finances to help them properly get back on their feet – and not the abandonment seen in Afghanistan recently – that is what will halt this awful human trafficking and mass migration of people desperately looking to leave these conflicts behind. It is not enough to go in, them dash off, leaving these regions to clean up a mess they didnt necessarily ask for

Fortunately for Ukraine, they are in Europe and funding will likely come, to get them rebuilding, once the ongoing madness ends..

There’s no perfection out there, and personally, I care less about who is wrong or right, we just need to refuse military solutions. All sides need to refuse to provoke the need for war at any scale. If/when wars occur anyway, then the world (perhaps via a global levy that all UN countries pay into) must fund reconstruction of the desolated societies. Perhaps if that bill hurts us all, we will show a bit more reluctance, a bit more restraint? ah well…..