liberalism and the war

Cairo - Egypt | Thursday, April 07, 2022:

Commentators have discussed many possible causes for the war in Ukraine. Some have suggested Russian addiction to territorial expansion or Putin’s personal “complex” over the demise of the Soviet Union or, in other versions, of Czarist Russia. Others blame the US and its determination to expand NATO into Ukraine, drawing the analogy with the Cuban missile crisis, which triggered the first major nuclear alarm in history. Other reasons mentioned have to do with the nature of the mono-polar world order or a global order in which globalisation was not rooted in the principle of serving all countries. Some pinned it on President Biden, arguing that he saw his popularity ratings slump so low that he fabricated this crisis to rally American, NATO countries and the whole Western world behind him. 

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