Hi Paul...this may not b entirely on point but I will tell you nonetheless.

This morning when doing some shopping, I was invited to round my spending up to the next available dollar. I agreed, and effectively contributed the grand sum of 30 cents to the disaster appeal here in Australia. I asked the assistant how I could donate more. She had no idea, so I went looking.

Eventually I found a woman in the fruit section and I asked her if she could consider talking to her boss about making higher donations.

"Nah, nah!!" she replied. "I just do me job here, and go 'ome. I don't involved in that kinda stuff."

"Shame," I answered. "shame."

The point I was trying to make to her, and management, is, that when you make charity easy, people open their wallets and give generously.

We did it in the bush fires of 2019, because it was on our home turf, yet somehow untold floods don't seem to matter so much as walls of flame that defy human intervention.

I absolutely agree with your parallels of world War II. I didn't live through those times, but the stories of cruelty I have read many times. They beggar belief.

The stories unfolding now, much of it censored, also beggar belief. Can Putin be charged with crimes against humanity?

Russians have had enough, Ukrainians are fighting with incredible fortitude, and we are watching on, wondering and waiting, for the show of courage from the rest of the world, to get on the road.

Maybe, like the woman in the supermarket, they'"just don't get involved in that kinda stuff."