Lives. Human lives, no different from yours or mine. Possibly even yours or mine, or a loved one, definitely somebody’s loved ones, a lot of somebodies actually.

Also immense financial and ecological cost and minds and bodies that will never recover. But it’s your cousin, or your classmate, or the neighbor’s kid all cut down in the prime of their lives alongside ordinary people from far away. Innocents and combatants alike.

No sane and moral person desires war unless they feel they absolutely must.