SECOND UKRAINIAN WAR: TOWARD AN ENDGAME?
(Article based on recent postings on the Linked In platform.) We seems to be finally going toward an endgame to the military conflict that has been going on between Russia and Ukraine, and that started in February 2022. That regional war is important in itself, but it is only a part of a much larger conflict, centered on the growing rivalry between the Eurasian powers (China/Russia/Iran) and the United States. In the context of that rivalry, Ukraine is the Eastern Europe theater of war. Since October 2023, the Middle East have become the second theater of the same armed conflict, opposing directly this time the Israeli-American coalition and Iran. In 2014, a relatively short First Ukrainian War brought the Russian Federation the oblast of Crimea, and also created two small pro-Russian allied republics in Eastern Ukraine. So far, the much longer Second Ukrainian War brought the Russian Federation the greater parts of four additional Ukrainian oblasts, apart from Crimea. At this po...
