Thursday 24 March 2022 – Vol.13 Ed.12.4
Commentary: War has shattered illusions of the West
By Meghnad Desai in London
The three-week-old war that Vladimir Putin has waged against Ukraine has shattered the illusions on which the entire architecture of the post-1945 western order has been based. There are at least three such illusions: the democratic power of the United Nations, universal peace in Europe and the US belief that it was the world’s sole superpower following the collapse of the Soviet...