We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.
Reality is a powerful solvent.
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.