The Irish Independent’s View: Many will be wondering exactly who benefits from normalising relations between US and Russia
Four-hundred Palestinian lives were ended when Israel shattered a truce in place since January. What took several months of shuttle diplomacy to build was blown away in seconds.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, while anxiously anticipating word of the phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky reminded the world what was really on the line: “Every day in wartime is a matter of human lives.”
He had every reason to be fretful – he has attended ceremonies for initial portentous agreements with Moscow, only to see them trampled into the earth of his homeland by Russia’s invading troops.
He can be forgiven for looking a gift horse in the mouth and recognising it may well be a Trojan one.
The funereal mood music accompanying the global splintering of once-solid relationships resonated in the German Bundestag, where a vote to release a €1tn defence spending plan was approved.
A dalliance with neo-imperialism seems to be once more reflected in…
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