James Jeffrey

The Russian assault on Ukraine must be seen not only as a vicious aggression against a sovereign state violating international law, but a challenge to the entire Western-led global security order since World War II. As such this is the biggest challenge to that order since the Cuban Missile Crisis…

In 2022 we face not a new world order but a return to the world of 1941-1991. During that period the US led a global collective security order whose core goal (beyond various monetary, trade, human rights and other objectives) was to defeat efforts by first Germany and Japan, then the Soviet Union…