I'm optimistic about Europe. I think the division we have seen in the last decade with Brexit and Fidesz and Le Pen and Farage will shrink back, when people see

I'm optimistic about Europe. I think the division we have seen in the last decade with Brexit and Fidesz and Le Pen and Farage will shrink back, when people see Russia as a dangerous example of what it leads to, and hopefully see how fragile democracy is and how hard (and important) it can be to protect it, in Ukraine. The EU and Europe as a whole has really come together. I also think that the refugee situation will be a non-issue. I wouldn't have thought so even a month ago, but now I'm optimistic about that too. The "help from the west" I hope will come from e.g. that assets now frozen in London, Switzerland and elsewhere can be transfered to Ukraine as war reparations from Russia. I'm more pessimistic about the future when it comes to China/Taiwan, Russia (How do we even handle having a pariah state on par with Iran but the size of Russia on our doorstep?).