'War and forgetting': Could Ukraine ever fall as much out of focus as Syria?

There was a time the colours of Ukraine were everywhere. Now, as Yascha Mounk notes, the marketing departments of major corporations found a way remove Ukrainian flags from their office buildings and social media accounts "as inconspicuously as possible, often by temporarily replacing them with a symbol of support for some other worthy cause". Photo by Marjan Blan @marjanblan on Unsplash

One of the best pieces I read on the tragic first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 24) was by Yascha Mounk, a political scientist who combines an informed perspective on international affairs with a lively interest in our turning world.

Mr Mounk, an associate professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, is also editor-in-chief and founder of Persuasion.

This is an interesting venture. Persuasion styles itself as a publication, community and “platform for publishing interesting ideas…a c…