Regarding my Buddhist perspective regarding the war in Ukraine being weird or even slanderous, Maxwell writes:

"...not weird, but in line with Mark's take on the messaging of the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren - about the sanctity of life.....I asked the question, how differently would life for the majority of Ukrainians have been had they capitulated - what was the absolute minimum they needed to give up to avoid war- then compare that to the possible victory of planting your victory flag atop a pile of rubble and corpses?"

I thank you for posing this question.