We sent some drones

We're not exactly at war, but there is, there is. Let's see how we deal with (how we deal with) this contradiction in itself. The school year has started, PSG is coming to Barcelona to play the Champions League on Wednesday, everyone who could has gone on vacation this summer, and the other day I attended a family conversation about whose turn it is to celebrate Christmas and whose turn it is to celebrate Easter. But, meanwhile, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than three and a half years, and now Russia is inviting us to enter the war by the provocative method of sending us drones.

Drones are like insects: small, but irritating enough to make us lose our tempers and have to drop everything we're doing to try to eliminate them with a swipe of our shoe. Naturally, Russia sends them denying that it's sending them, to see if we make a false step in its response and give it a pretext to become the attacked party and pretend it's responding in legitimate defense of its sovereignty.

In 2014, on the centenary of the start of the First World War, Pope Francis prophetically declared, "a world war in pieces." This was recently recalled by Antonio Spadaro, an Italian Jesuit and close collaborator of Pope Francis, who was invited to speak at the Joan Carrera Tribune in Barcelona. "When will we hear Leo XIV?" they asked him, and Spadaro replied that we will see Prevost gone on a trip to his native United States, but that he is still in a period of discernment, listening to everyone, maturing the answer for when the time comes to give continuity to that comforting greeting of the night he was chosen: "!

We are entering a new world order and governments are redoubling their old bet on weapons as a guarantee of security. Rearmament is a fact and the hook for why we use them could not be clearer, as clear as the danger involved in pulling the trigger, because we already know that changes in world hegemony have never been peaceful.