"If Russia wins, no state, and no border would feel secure. And the world would enter a new era of imperialist wars of conquest."
A brilliant piece in the Economist magazine from the author of “Sapiens” Yuval Noah Harari.
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A brilliant piece in the Economist magazine from the author of “Sapiens” Yuval Noah Harari.
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2/ He says that: "Humanity’s greatest political achievement has been the decline of war. That is now in jeopardy."
3/ By launching a criminal invasion, russia has threatened the future chance at security and prosperity everywhere in the world. This war is not just Ukraine's problem. Every single person on the planet will pay if russia profits from aggression.
4/ Because if russia is allowed to win today, then tomorrow a dozen more dictators will seek to do what Putin was allowed to do. If Moscow isn't stopped, the rules based world order will collapse, and every bully in the world will start swallowing up its neighbors.
5/ Smaller nations in turn will seek out nuclear weapons to defend themselves. Because it just got proven that promises of peace and security from “superpowers” are worth nothing.
6/ So if Ukraine now falls, a nation who voluntarily gave up its nukes in 1994, we won't just see the collapse of the international order, we will get another Nuclear Arms race.
7/ There is only one way to stop it - give Ukrainians all the necessary means to push russians back to Mordor.
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