Thanks for this insightful conversation. I'd like to gently push back on the notion of the lack of nuance in the discourse. Of course the situation is horrible and with a deep enough understanding of all the factors one can have a very thoughtful analysis of both what led up to the present moment and what can be done to get to the least bad outcome (given that there is no "good" outcome on offer) but it seems reasonably easy (in both the Israeli and Ukrainian conflicts, since you mention both) to identify what the core nature of the problem is and then work backwards from there. There is no version of a truth in which Hamas isn't the party responsible for the present moment. There is no "context" which justifies their actions (and here I refer to ALL their actions since their inception). Similarly, Russia is a terrorist state guilty of war-crimes (as defined by international law). That's not a "side" - it's a fact. If we agree, we can move to nuance. If we can't... we're stuck.

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