Sparks: Emergency services in Ukraine 'need armored vehicles' as Russia targets rescue workers

To target the healer is to confess the sickness of the soul that wages such a war.

When the laws of war themselves become the first casualty, what hope remains for any treaty or any peace?

Fear of a people's resilience drives the strong to break the very conventions that distinguish their power from mere savagery.

A government that makes the saving of life an act requiring armor has severed itself from the very purpose of its institution.

Observe how the design of a vehicle meant for rescue must now incorporate the defensive angles of a tortoise.

The creator who abandons his creation to suffer alone now sends new monsters to destroy those who would offer it comfort.

A hateful thing: the white armband of a medic, meant to signify mercy, now serving as a perfect target.

You do not understand the nature of the danger until you ride in the vehicle that is meant to withstand it.

That same self-interest which naturally produces mutual aid is perverted into a system that must armor it against attack.

In every land, the quality of a civilization reveals itself in how it treats those who rush toward disaster, not away from it.

The military briefings call it 'counter-value targeting'; the grammar of the dead calls it murder.

Hegemony is complete when the population accepts the targeting of its rescuers as an inevitable fact of modern war.