I have a friend who runs a 1940s stall/trade/enactment business - there is a milatary aspect to part of what she does but not completely - wartime dress etc.
She and others were messaged by a 1940s festival that they are cancelling the event outright for this year. The explanation given is that it is out of a mark of respect for Ukraine and for anyone local feeling affected by those events.
Other similar events and venues have since done something similar and left her and other traders feeling upset at the loss of their trade/livelihoods having this avenue in the light of the last few years.
Personally, I am not sure about battle/war reenactments in general - I suppose if it is done respectfully, a sense of celebrating something of the spirit of an era and it depends on the specifics of the historical period. Also, an alternative version of the events could perhaps have been held focusing on the era, if not the war elements.
But I suppose I am wondering about the reasoning of it - there have been conflicts and horrible global atrocities in the past decade or so: Darfur, the horrors of Isis, the earlier Ukraine conflict, Syria, Afghanisation, Somalia. I know this one is European, and physically closer, but those ones have also been brutal, horrific and caused people to flee. If it isn't right this year to hold these events, then when would it be right, on these grounds?
I will open it up to voting as happy to be told I am unreasonable - I may have read it completely wrong.