Ben Peters: Ukrainian Reflections from Tulsa, Oklahoma
I have not been directly affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, although I am in touch with dozens of my colleagues, friends, and contacts in the region, where I have lived for about three years and have studied for about twenty. As such, my comments here will bear far less of the immediate unbearable horror, trauma, and disgust that comes with this unprovoked and murderous war timed in the dark of winter to exacerbate suffering, as it will on my own rolling reflection on what, if anything, the removed observer can do or even think in the face of such evil.
