(FINANCIAL TIMES) - My finger hovered over the mouse as I briefly considered retweeting the "Battle of Snake Island" footage. You may have seen it; you may have retweeted it yourself. It was, apparently, the last moments alive of 13 heroic Ukrainian soldiers, with a Russian ship demanding surrender, and the imperishable Ukrainian response, "Russian warship, go f*** yourself". The coda: All 13 had immediately been killed by a Russian bombardment.
But while my finger hovered, I did not retweet to my nearly 200,000 followers. Why not?
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