I seriously hope NATO, USA and Europe all step up to the plate.
There is just a 2 or 3 week window for Ukraine to stop Russia regrouping in the South East.
miss that opportunity and the resulting war of attrition could go on for years
Given that the invasion effectively started in 2014 who knows how long it can last. It's certainly highlighting the geopolitical dependence of trade on resources, you can't touch me because you need my gas/oil kind of thing. Sadly I also think Ukraine is being used as a pawn in the game of setting a new world order, China, India, Pakistan and several others are carefully setting themselves on one side of the fence whilst the rest of the world sets itself up on the other.
One thing is for certain, the sanctions are going to push us not into a global recession, but a global depression, who benefits from that?
China are desperate to push America into 2nd place as the worlds biggest economy, but if in doing that they reduce the rest of the world to poverty, they've lost their market. How does that work?
The Ukraine/Russian war is terrible, it's a horrible thing, it's a tragic waste of life. But, I can't help feeling that there are things going on in the background far worse, we are pawns in a very big game.
In the meantime, we wait with baited breath to hear whether or not Boris gets a fixed penalty fine for having a glass of wine and a slice of birthday cake after work.
**** me.