All thirty NATO countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada are involved, one way or another in a war that Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov described recently as “a comprehensive hybrid war.” Observers have described the war as having all the features of a proxy war. The stark objectives of Russia’s enemies aside, the fundamental question is; what would this world look like at the end of the war? Will the outcome see another fallacious ‘end of history’ or, to put it more mildly, the end of a era for Russia and the beginning another for Ukraine or vice versa? Many have called for an end to the war and for a return to diplomatic efforts to bring about a political/diplomatic solution to the conflict. Meanwhile, Pope Francis for his part, in his 2022 Christmas Day Message called for an immediate end to the “senseless” war in Ukraine.
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