Commentary: In light of Russia’s war with Ukraine, has the UN become irrelevant?
The war in Ukraine, now in its fourth month, has caused many of us to challenge key beliefs previously taken for granted. Europe, in turns out, isn’t some special region of the world immune to the depravities and brutalities of armed conflict. The European Union, an organization often referred to as a slow-moving, bureaucratic machine, can actually come together with resolute action when the circumstances call for it. And Russia’s Vladimir Putin, depicted in the past as a strategic genius with an uncanny ability to exploit his adversaries’ failings, is in actuality a
