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.
The world is being forcibly reconfigured by at least three concurrent revolutions: a geopolitical revolution driven by the rise of China; an ideological revolution consuming the Western world; and a technological revolution exacerbating both of the former.Geopolitically, a decent understanding of what is happening, if not of its full extent, has em... See more
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
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
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
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
... See moreH. R. McMaster • Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
[3] is of course a more complicated moral question: whether you view paralysis and creep toward de-facto authoritarian global government as a bigger problem or someone inventing an evil technology that dooms us all as a bigger problem.