The EU’s belatedly and slowly turning the proverbial boat around on Israel’s war is kind of hard to come to grips with mentally. I felt something similar when the pandemic was taken so seriously, that if they ever take climate change this seriously I’m gonna be like “What are they thinking? A stitch in time would’ve saved ninety-nine!”
If they were gonna act anyway, which, do not get me wrong, it’s great that they are, then they should’ve earlier because it would’ve saved so many lives.
It’s like you see the adult in the room go into the fridge and grab a bottle of tomato juice and just pour pour pour it on grandma’s best rug and as you say “please stop doing that” they just put on Entombed and turn the volume to eleven and drown you out and keep pouring and when the third bottle is nearly emptied they’re like “someone should stop pouring. This is going to be a bitch to clean out” you’re like 🤯🤯🤯🫠 I do not understand this world.
And that’s just Europe. In the US where some of those who spoke up were career-ended or expelled or arrested or deported, that metaphor is inadequately woeful and would’ve have to have been unspeakably horrible to accurately reflect the mess, which then in turn becomes a nothingness compared to all the lives destroyed in the actual war.