Two years of war in Ukraine : lessons learnt

It has learnt some painful lessons, but I also think there is hope in this learning process.

To start with, it was forced to rediscover that war is not a faint memory or a minor disturbance that happens in some distant countries on other continents. And the war that has been raging for two years now in its immediate neighbourhood brought with it a whole list of other very unpleasant truths.