War on our doorstep

A few years ago, at the time of the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, when the war between Serbia and Croatia was going on, our Croatian friend, professor Boris Labar, a pioneer of bone marrow transplantation, was almost crying in Yugoslavia. He said, "we are making such a gigantic effort to save one twenty-year-old, and these idiots (that's about politicians) are killing them by the hundreds." Wars make the efforts of the so-called extreme medicine (dealing with matters of immediate life threatening) meaningless. A single human life ceases to be a value. Bone marrow transplantation grew out of military medicine, from attempts to save victims of nuclear war, but was quickly abandoned by this medicine because it could not be used on a massive scale. As a result, it has developed into the most humane human activity: the only type of surgery in which an anonymous donor in one (sometimes hostile) country donates his share (marrow) to save an unknown person in another country. Germans to Poles, Poles to Germans. Recently, we have exceeded 10,000 such donations in Poland.

Russia theoretically has no military potential. Traditionally, wars have been a "third sons" enterprise. It was in the days of big families. The first son inherited from his father, the second went to the priesthood, and the third got a saber and "what you win is yours". Today, the Russians are a dying nation, there are no third sons, no second sons, and there is not always a first son. And now some of these first sons will perish or be mutilated. Only to kill the "Slavic Brothers" and maybe get some scorched earth, which will not even be guarded by anyone. Although the Russians went into space, they did the first bone marrow transplantation only in 1991 (in Poland in 1984) and they are still in the lead when it comes to the number of procedures. At the front, they don't need it. How often they say: "We have many people".