War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.
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Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.
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