Europe – not Africa, not the Middle East – now has the most (numerically) important war

The rule of thumb that drives humanitarian work and diplomacy is that the most people die in Africa, but that the biggest financial cost is from war in the Middle East. Thanks to the Russian meat grinder, that is no longer true.

It is unpopular in the mainstream to the extent that I’ve had editors decline analysis pieces such as this for fear of the outr…