️ Do not normalise the war "Wars tend to accelerate history, shift power balances, turn assumptions on their head and create new realities."  Read this new #CriticalThinking article by Chris Kremidas-Courtney: "What have we learned from the Russian invasion of Ukraine?". ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/ecpSSs2y #StandWithUkraine #DoNotNormaliseTheWar #FoEDebate | Friends of Europe | Facebook

For centuries wars are being fought with contemporary weapons and in some instances with future or prototype ones. However some old weapons, older than their current users, are being utilized. The Ukraine war has shown that some very old designs can still be used. Machine guns from a century ago, bolt action rifles older than that, submachine guns designed for WW2, anti-tank rifles as relics of the same conflict are being used, in big numbers or some rare occasions. Each of these weapons tell u