I admire Pope Paul VI who said in 1965: “No more war, war never again”. Wars do not solve any problem. They only breed resentment and deepen enmity. Fifty-one countries of the world created the United Nations in 1945 with lofty objectives: that all countries may co-exist peacefully, prosper, and improve the lives of their people. The verdict is that the United Nations is a failure. Under its watch, there have been several wars in the last 80 years.

Two wars are currently raging in this world

The Ukraine war was started on February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. In the heydays of the USSR, Ukraine was a republic of the Soviet Union. Many Russians and Russian-speaking people lived in the region known as Ukraine. When the Soviet Union dissolved itself in 1991, Ukraine became a sovereign Republic. Between 2014 and 2022, Russia forcibly annexed Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk. The annexations seem to be a fait accompli. Russia’s justification for the invasion of Ukraine was that Ukraine had applied to become a member of NATO and NATO countries were using Ukraine to expand their sphere of influence and encircle Russia.

Ukraine is a sovereign country. Whether or not it will become a member of NATO, it........

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