But much of the western debate of the past week has glossed over the scale of the human and social catastrophe unleashed by the US-led war.
The increasing price tag is likely to sharpen the Western debate over providing credits and other forms of economic assistance to Russia.
A mask made from the biometric data of women contemplates the Western debate to criminalize veils or burqas, like what we saw in France back in 2011.
But the Western debate appears to have been pulled from a single, 50-year-old script that keeps getting passed around.
She argues that during the course of the 19th century, western debates on the "natural" or "inalienable" rights were eclipsed by struggles for extending the franchise and campaigns to improve social and economic conditions and trade union rights.
It has become much more respectable to assert that the Muslim faith turns people violent.There are political as well as theological reasons why Western debates on the nature of Islam are so charged.
Now, as the western world debates the potential costs of overhauling our legacy systems in favor of a digital and decentralized future, Africa asks no such questions.
Polls have shown that while the Western world debates the burqa, our image in the Middle East is less than favourable.
While the western world debates pensions and retirement ages, she wakes each day to help gather firewood, fetch water and prepare porridge for her grandchildren before they leave for school.
The people facing the worst impacts of climate change have virtually no voice in western debates about whether to do anything serious to prevent catastrophic global warming.
