“I see my granddaughters running away in panic,” Guterres said. “The war is an absurdity in the 21st century. The war is evil. There is no way a war can be acceptable in the 21st century.” One wonders what subject(s) Antonio Guterres studied at university. Political economy, security, war studies, international relations? None of these subjects describes war as an absurdity. In fact, he was a student in engineering and telecommunications, not in the humanities. Apparently, the Portuguese Socialist Party never educated him in the subject of war or political economy. Leaving aside that UN secretary general is fundamentally wrong about what war is, has he ever said that what has happened in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia, for instance, are ‘absurdities’ in the 21st century? Isn’t he another Westerner shocked by a war in a ‘civilised’ country/region using different measurements and criteria?