Five theses on half a year of war

The worst is getting used to the fact that people die every day, women, men, children. Because they are massacred, raped or expelled. Because the warlord in the Kremlin believes he can use brute military force to carry out historical revisionism.

Horror and indignation about this is losing energy – slowly but steadily. And so, in our media world, too, the news about the Ukraine war is falling behind – somewhere between the traffic light coalition disputes about fuel discounts, cold progression or the speed limit on the freeways. These are the relentless laws of the attention economy.

However, we will not get used to the long-term consequences of this war, which began exactly six months ago. A war that only knows losers.