Love this podcast?

Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature.

It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment.

Just click the link in the show description to support now.

Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and sorry for my clogged up nose this time, it's the heating season starts. So this is what it is.

But today I wanted to talk about something more important, more meaningful, I suppose, more philosophical,

because I've been looking at the current events in Ukraine and in Israel and, well, everywhere,

to be honest. And it always strikes me when everyone who's like commenting this from a mainstream position, they always come back to the very one aspect that somehow hits

the most. The value of human life. A lot of commentators have read, have spoken about when

comparing Israel to Hamas and in this situation, the fact that Israel and about the hostages

specifically that Israel has, I think, a couple of times at least, changed more than thousand

Hamas terrorists for one of their own. And at the same time, if I watch people, Russian opposition

commentators about the war like Michael Nakke, and this is from him.

He at this point, while commenting all this situation, said that in the West, people are overestimating the value of human life in the sense that everyone's so afraid of violence,

that right now people are shocked that there's even a ground operation being done by Israel.

And he also said that people are shocked in the West that, yes, you know, Ukraine also has to

fire bullets and kill people in their own war.

And at the same time, I'm watching a channel on YouTube about economics, called Economics Explained,

and everything they're doing is reducing everything to the sheer numbers,

you know, sheer numbers of how much someone would pay in their taxes, how much they would

produce a chemical value of this. And at the same time, I'm also reading about Merkala tanks

and the new model that the Israeli army has introduced and how the main

...