> Russia’s attack on Ukraine marks the end of all that and the beginning of a new normal — or, rather, a shift back toward the old normality. These kind of art

> Russia’s attack on Ukraine marks the end of all that and the beginning of a new normal — or, rather, a shift back toward the old normality. These kind of articles are lazy. For some reason journalists and forgotten cold war experts have sprung from the bushes to retell the only story they know about , but history doesnt repeat itself. There is no indication that we are going to go back to a cold war situation because russia is not important anymore despite its military strength. Russia doesnt have a compelling ideological narrative to offer like the USSR. Even china doesnt have a particularly powerful narrative to engage the world. And everywhere you look around the world , people are looking into their phones. Maybe land borders dont really matter that much, it's only in particular regions of the world where such wars occur.