China, Russia, Iran Have Made Ukraine a World War Against US, Europe - Bloomberg
Opinion
Hal Brands, Columnist

Ukraine Is Now a World War. And Putin Is Gaining Friends.

Global proxy conflicts were a constant in Cold War I, and Russia’s invasion marked the first of Cold War II. 

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Hal Brands is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Foreign policy experts have worried for decades about a second Korean War. No one ever imagined it would happen in Ukraine.

Today, Seoul and Pyongyang are waging their decades-long struggle on Ukrainian battlefields. It is a microcosm of the world proxy war underway.

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