The desire to look only a few weeks or months into the future has probably grown enormously in Europe since February 24, 2022. The situation has never been as uncertain after 1945 as it is now. The deformation of the classical public sphere is massive. Memories of war are so pale that the art of evading its pull appears as cowardice, immorality, weakness. The search term or metaphor "mole war" is aimed at this entire context of the shocking presence of war in a politics that, according to old habit, pretends to have everything under control instead of reflecting on the danger of the real situation.