Inflection point for the West-led global order

Context

The Ukraine crisis has come to a head with Russia biting the bullet and launching “a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

What the editorial is about?

Russian invasion, the response of the West and its implications.

Russian Invasion

• Russia has long resisted Ukraine's move towards European institutions and it is now demanding it never joins NATO, a demand rejected by the Western alliance.
• Russia seized part of southern Ukraine in 2014 and backed separatists who started a conflict in large areas of the east.
• Russia was warning of military measures for long if the West does not meet its demands.
• The non-acceptance of Russia’s demand by the west has now created a pretext to invade Ukraine.

Response of the West

• The western countries had imposed a new round of sanctions aga