Watching clips of the unfolding events in Ukraine takes me back to 1991 and the First Gulf War. I worked at a local printing company as a young backroom assistant to the paper buyer. Every day seemed to revolve around discussion of the war. Sales reps would come in excited about the latest gossipy update they had heard from a ‘reliable source.’ The big boss would thunder through the office triumphally proclaiming massive orders of printed stationery from the RAF (war generates a lot of paperwork, who knew?) And every morning my immediate boss would stagger in bleary eyed after another all-nighter of CNN’s live coverage from Kuwait. I found it all a bit tedious, and quickly concluded that men not only love war, but seek it. Fast forward three decades and very little seems to have changed.
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