The peaceful sky was the settlement, and the sky is now described as a front

Six reigning monarchs and two heirs stood in a cathedral in Oslo on 9 September; a wartime president's plane waited on a runway in a neighbouring country because a drone had crossed its border; a newspaper called the continent's airspace an active front line, and sixteen nations agreed by their records. Nothing about the funeral was disrupted. Nobody trended. The peace that let Europe bury a king in the company of other kings, for eighty years, was not an event and has not ended as one. It is th ...