Författararkiv: Simon Franzén

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting …

The free should not be numbed by the sight of this vast graveyard of human liberties. It is the despots who should feel haunted. They, not we, should fear the future. John Foster Dulles, 1952[1] The experience of the war has shown that the bravest armi…

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke[1] The deed is all, the glory nothing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[2] I januari i år beskrev Michael Kimma…

At this point, the fight in Ukraine is not about borders or flags but about what kind of world we’ve built over the past century, and whether that world can sustain itself in the face of limitless brutality. As the Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin sa…

With 2,000 years of examples behind us we have no excuse when fighting, for not fighting well. E Lawrence[1] Det går inte bra för Ryssland. Efter de ukrainska motoffensiverna i norra Ukraina under hösten har ryska styrkor inte genomfört några större of…

A war between Russia and Ukraine would be a disaster… A conventional war between Russia and Ukraine would entail vast military casualties and the possible murder of many thousands of civilians. Russians and Ukrainians have a history of mutual enmity; t…