The Ukraine War was the single most important event happening in the world. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, among many other powerful luminaries, said so frequently. Freedom itself was at stake. If Russia won, those pesky Ivans could take the Baltic States and threaten the rest of Europe. Russian power had to be degraded through Ukrainian force of arms, as Putin’s hordes represented an existential threat to our very way of life. Pundits, politicians, reporters, academics all endlessly lectured tired, beleaguered American tax payers that, while Ukraine would eventually emerge victorious, we had to do our part with unlimited military and financial support.

All eyes were on Kiev.

Until Hamas managed to break out of the world’s largest open air prison and attack Israeli civilians.

Suddenly, the Ukraine War has gone missing. The most strategically significant conflict since WWII, or so they told us, is getting less media attention than run-of-the-mill celebrity gossip. Taylor Swift dating a football player is more important than a shooting war in the heart of Europe. Ukraine is being thoroughly ignored, even by those who recently were the country’s bestest friends. Things are so bad for President Zelenskyy, that he is the only Jew in the whole world who is not allowed to visit Israel. https://orthodoxreflections.com/why-has-the-ukraine-war-gone-missing/