Politicians who somehow never learned any real history, but picked up something about Munich during their A-levels, and world affairs commentators who never ventured east of Frinton.

They all want war without end in Ukraine. Many of them give off the rich, sickly perfume of high moral purity.

They do not know, or have forgotten that this country took part in a bloodstained illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, that it helped violently to rearrange the borders of Yugoslavia, that it crazily bombed Libya in 2011 (so triggering mass migration which has never stopped since).

Some of them actually helped to destabilise Syria so that it now has an Al Qaeda government presiding over the blood, graves and rubble created by our 'ethical foreign policy'.

Well, I believe the Ukrainian army is now accepting volunteers from almost anywhere, of nearly any age. It needs to.

Many of that country's own young men flee abroad, or bribe greedy officials for exemptions, or go into hiding lest they are dragged off to the front by snatch squads employed by their martial law state.

For them, the claims that Ukraine is a vibrant western democracy sound pretty thin.

So my first response to these jingoes is to say:

'If you are so keen, please go and fight in the war you like so much.

Perhaps you might free some press-ganged young man to go home and be a husband and father, instead of cannon fodder'.

But that would be a bit emotional. Let's try facts and logic instead.

There is a very serious argument against this war. All grown-ups in world affairs are well aware of it.

It was fro

m the start a rash, cynical adventure. Ukraine has been used. You can only say the truth if you are a keen supporter of the conflict.

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