![]() ![]() Thursday 24 February 2022 is arguably the darkest day in European history since the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia throughout the 1990s. It cannot be emphasised enough just how much President Putin’s despicable actions and great deception (he has claimed for weeks now that Russia would not invade Ukraine) are a direct existential threat to a European security order that has prevailed for more than 30 years since the end of the Cold War. The crisis now moves into a new phase, one which threatens a devastating inter-state war between major European countries bigger than any other since the end of the Second World War. It is nothing more than a flagrant act of aggression by one of the world’s foremost powers against a sovereign European nation. In defiance of international appeals for a peaceful solution and warnings about severe consequences and crippling sanctions, President Putin has not been deterred. Russia has launched an invasion of Ukraine, an invasion that is without any justification whatsoever. ![]() The dark spectre that has been looming large over Europe for weeks has now finally come to pass. ![]()
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