It's Tuesday, March 8, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview. The war in Ukraine

continues and Russia is pressing its offensive and we now have very credible

evidence more and more evidence of the fact that Russia and its armed forces are

targeting civilians. This in violation of the rules of war, of the principles of

Christian just war theory, of treaties and agreements such as the Geneva Convention, the reality is that we are looking

at a nation that is acting as a criminal nation, as a rogue nation.

And the simple historical fact we just remind ourselves is that this is the first

invasion of a nation by another nation in Europe since the end of World War II.

One of the things we do need to note is that Americans are becoming desensitized to the

headlines.

I mean, after all, how interesting is it to come back and say the war in Ukraine continues.

If this war were to go on for a matter of months or years,

you can understand why we face the danger

that urgent moral issues can simply become a part of the landscape.

They can simply be assumed and interest is lost.

Before interest is lost, we need to recognize that human lives are at stake in Ukraine. And there are two big stories that I want us to

consider. One of them is more urgent than the other. The most urgent has to do with food. As

you are looking at the massive movement of humanity, many refugees now over a million trying to flee Ukraine and go into safer areas to the west,

you are also looking at the fact that there are inadequate food supplies, but there's another

huge story looming over all of this.

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