Whoa..
We have prepared a peace plan for Ukraine, — Macron
▪️Europe is entering a new era, the threat from Russia extends to all of us;
▪️Peace cannot be concluded on the Russia's terms;
▪️We must prepare for the fact that the US will not be on our side;
▪️Peace cannot be signed in Washington or Moscow.
Whoa.. We have prepared a peace plan for Ukraine, — Macron ▪️Europe is entering a new era, the threat from Russia extends to all of us; ▪️Peace cannot be concluded on the Russia's terms; ▪️We must prepare for the fact that the US will not be on our side; ▪️Peace cannot be signed in Washington or Moscow.
Russian threat to Europe has reemerged. This might have been inevitable given that the Soviet Union lost the Cold War, saw its external empire in Eastern Europe break free, and then experienced its own internal breakup. Russia accounts for roughly half the population and three-fourths of the land area of the former Soviet Union. It has retained a p
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Russia’s appearance of strength, however, belied significant weaknesses that cut across its economy, demographics, public health, and social services. As former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright has observed, Putin’s Russia played a poor hand well.71 The United States and its allies, particularly in Europe, played a much better hand poorly
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The hour may be growing late. Just before retiring at the end of 2022, Admiral Charles Richard, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, declared that “this Ukrainian crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup.” Citing the decline in America’s military capability relative to China’s in the western Pacific, he added: “The big one is coming.
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Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml
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As a stage in Russia’s advance towards Eurasian empire, the acquisition of the Ukraine, opening the road to the Black Sea, might be likened to the British conquest of Bengal after 1757.