Comfortable War: Why Europe continues to believe that military horrors will not reach it

What is common between Taras Chmut's last interview, books about Harry Potter and the news that the author of the book "Go to where will not come to Ukraine will not come to Ukraine, because it is scary? Taras Chmut said that Europe was taking a war in Ukraine as a war for the poor.

It is understood that they, Europeans (and in general our Western partners) have super -class planes, have fleets, have high -precision weapons and latest tanks, and they do not understand that, quote, "do not have to have the best technique […]. I do not agree to the end. Yes they really don't understand. But mostly because they do not want to understand.

I communicate enough with representatives of partner countries and as the head of Gar Mo, and as a private person, in order to realize: most of them (not all!) Deliberately or unconsciously close my eyes, so as not to see what will destroy their comfortable world. The fact that the war to which they have been preparing for decades and to which they are accustomed to-when the enemy has wooden sneakers, desert color and RPG-7 from the RPC of Soviet production is not the war that will come to them.

Our war will come to them. With drones and murders under the entrance with the help of broken applications with AppStore. With burning cities and the cheeds. With trenches, trenches, nets, "egoza". The one that is so similar to the First World War they prefer to forget. And if you recognize this fact, you will have to change too much. Turn the call. Put billions on weapons, not a social. Proceed from conventions. To lose ratings, public confidence and most importantly - inner peace.

From the thought where the closest bomb shelter. Is the daughter able to impose a turnstile. Whether so far from Kiev or Pokrovskaya to Vienna or Paris. How the death that will come after you sounds, and what taste the water after a day under the scorching sun in the armor. And they don't want to. Don't want to think about it. They continue to prepare not for the war rich - but for their convenient war. Wars that are comfortable to think of. War somewhere there.

As it was in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, other distant countries. Hence the news that the US Army for the first time (!) Has discharged grenades from the drone or that the latest instruction for tank units recommends that they knock down drones from Abrams's main gun. Because it is more convenient to adjust the fictional reality than to perceive the real one. This, of course, is better than nothing, but it will not save it from reality.

In one of the penultimate books with Harry Potter there was a moment when Voldemort had already returned at a pile of respectable witnesses, but the magic minister refuses to believe it because it breaks his world. He is not afraid to go, but look to where she is scared. Magic ministers still come to Kyiv. And then, returning home, close their eyes. The author expresses a personal opinion that may not coincide with the editorial position.