Clodagh Finn: If women ruled the world, would we still have leaders like Putin?
THE unwomanly face of war — to borrow the title of Svetlana Alexievich’s groundbreaking oral history of Russian women who fought in the Second World War — is looking out at us again from the besieged cities and towns of Ukraine.
We’ve been here before, a point made several times in recent days as commentators count back through the long list of hawkish, self-aggrandising men whose big egos unleashed disaster: Napoleon, Hitler, Franco, Stalin, Mussolini, Putin.
