I watched something on YouTube and then exited to main screen. There were some "shorts" YouTube offered me to watch.

One was about girl in short dress and long socks doing shuffle dance (very cute), one was how to fix furniture hinges (in absolutely the most barbaric way imaginable) and one was showing a high caliber mortar loaded and fired.

From background voices it was clear the mortar video was shot in Ukraine but unclear on which side. So the comments came from both and generally divided into two types: "Yeah, pound these motherfuckers!" and "Yes, this thing can really fuck things up!"

One was different though. It came from someone with name written in Arabic language and it said: "The loader's blood drips on the projectile. This war is just crap like every other one."

At first I thought it was some allegory but then the video looped and I saw it. As the humongous shell was loaded several large drops of blood fell on it.

The following satisfying blast of the shell departing made it easy to overlook this but the guy with the Arabic name saw it. I wondered where that person came from. Syria? Iraq? Afghanistan? But it felt like out of hundreds of commenters this person really knew what the war was.

#nowar