[Reuters]Two months ago, Russia invaded Ukraine in order to force Ukrainians to conform to Russian security concerns. In war, winning for the attacker means the attacked's unconditional surrender failure to which the attacker is the loser. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy is ‘winning’ because he has not surrendered and has grown in stature, fighting a ‘European’ war against Russia in Ukraine. In Vietnam, Americans reportedly never lost any battle but they lost the war because the Vietnamese held on and did not lose. There are other likely ramifications of the war in Ukraine for Europe; geopolitical and financial/economic - certainty has disappeared.

Source: Standard Digital April 24, 2022 19:00 UTC