Gonzalo Lira is alive and well. If you don’t know who he is or why this is good news I’ll explain in a moment. But first, let me ask a quick question: does it matter whether or not we get to the bottom of what’s really happening in Ukraine? I hope you’ll agree with me that it does very much. And the same goes for all the other wars that have cost us blood and/or treasure over the last few decades from Afghanistan and Iraq to Libya and Syria.