World crises keep swapping around

Only recently the news headlines were warning of a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ceasefire hopes were being raised in Ukraine and Gaza and the Roman Catholic cardinals voted for an American Pope. It was non-stop Big News. Today is the same but the emphases have changed. India and Pakistan are not at war any longer, restraint was imposed, diplomacy worked, so no nukes were drawn out of their bunkers; ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza have disappeared into the dust as Vladimir Putin in Moscow refuses to consider peace deals and Benjamin Netanyahu has launched his latest offfensive to grab control of the whole of Gaza, and Palestinians are dying every day. The Pope, on the other hand, is being inaugurated today and the sound of ecstatically cheering crowds in St Peter's Square is so much better than the sound of gunfire and bombs falling. Maybe there is hope in this Pope. The last one got tangled up in chruch crises. Wouldn't it be great if suddenly all the terrible wars going on at the moment just came to an end and the poor people suffering under the bombs and missiles and drones managed to retrieve their lives and have a future? But no, that is far too unrealistic a hope I fear.