For over two years, world news was dominated by disclosures and information about Covid, and the measures we needed to undertake to keep ourselves safe from infection. But that all changed on Feb 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine and set about an egregious war against a non-aggressive country.
Since that day, the conflict in Eastern Europe has been the predominant feature in the headlines of newspapers around the globe. And more recently, the news that has joined it is the war between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East which began in late 2023.
The invasion of Ukraine set into motion a long and enduring war that even influential people in Russia are now saying was pointless, ill-advised and with consequences that are damaging to both Russia and the rest of the world. Already flimsy economies and equally fragile fiscal recoveries after the pandemic were threatened…
