Omar El Manfalouty, a PhD student in history, is a volunteer pilot in the Mediterranean and recently also travelled to the border of Ukraine. Author: Dirk Frank The world is currently looking spellbound towards Ukraine; the war against the European country is causing great concern, especially in Europe, about a military escalation. But there is also a lot of sympathy for the people of the stricken country. For most people in the West, the theatre of war is very far away. Oma