The world has watched in shock, outrage and disbelief, as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin brazenly invaded his sovereign neighbor Ukraine — in a full-speed-ahead aggression that ended up with Putin cornering himself and entrapping much of the world in the mess he single-handedly created.
Then he made his godawful situation much worse by threatening the world with nuclear blackmail — yes, a threat to use his nuclear arsenal if any nation tries to stop him from seizing as much Ukrainian land as he wants.
Suddenly the world finds itself trapped in the sort of superpower confrontation we thought we had put behind us forever.
