Oh my.

[Fraidycat]

Let's be honest, however you look at it, Ukraine is in a rather bad position, the country is destroyed, it will take years to rebuild, population is spread around Europe, most young (or not even so young) men are dead or will be living with severe PTSD for the rest of their lives.

They have resorted to force conscripting men with Down Syndrome for the trenches, heart breaking video: https://twitter.com/stillgray/status...15576435097656

[Gibbon]

We don't talk about that. Or that "In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter war on their neighbours, resulting in the capture of 10,000, including another important slave trader, the King of Whydah. King Tegbesu made £250,000 a year selling people into slavery in 1750."

On my late OU course I remember asking what the Benin people were trading for the bronze to make their art. 'Commodities' was the answer.