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Anti-war song by Dire Straits packs a rational punch as we witness the Russia-Ukraine war

One of the best songs performed by the band Dire Straits, written by lead singer Mark Knopfler, is filled with apt lyrics serving as a simple yet rational anti-war reasoning.


Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits
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Brothers in arms

With the present scenario of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the unnecessary destruction of innocent lives and unsettlement the war has brought into the lives of not just the ones directly involved but also to the people all over the world, this is a song that aptly covers the situation with thought-provoking lyrics and subtle yet hard hitting guitars over calm rational vocals.



Lyrics that stand out - "There's so many different worlds, so many different suns and we have just one world but we live in different ones".

Bringing to mind Carl Sagan's genius philosophical 'pale blue dot' analogy of earth from the vastness of the universe, the lyric, reminds us that there are many worlds out there but this is one known world that we are inhabiting, albeit luckily. Yet we live in our own worlds in our minds, some carrying their own ideas and ideologies, at times, going to great lengths to propagate them even with the use of war. How utterly petty all of this is compared to the vastness of the universe and our place in it.

This is not to say, everything is meaningless or that our lives should be viewed as nothing. It is just a perspective to view and introspect our radical ideologies that actually take the lives of other people and the planet for granted, destroying them like they mean nothing.



We live on one planet, yet we are compelled by these divisive ideas to separate ourselves from each other through not just nations with borders but with so many other divisive, petty ideology serving thoughts turned into misguided implementations.

As we follow what's happening in Ukraine, we see how solid the Ukrainians are as human beings, for standing up for themselves and what they believe in. They provide strength to each other through their grit! 

Whatever the outcome of this war, the Russian soldiers, citizens and probably (and hopefully) Putin and his aides would be saying to themselves what Mark Knopfler sings at the end of the song, through the lens of a man who has truly understood one thing after being in a war, with no doubt in his mind,

We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms.


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