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[Joseph Kubicki]

[Ani Prakash]

With regards to the current situation unfolding in Ukraine, the Biden administration’s response to the conflict clearly sends a message to the rest of the world that these are dramatic turning points we are witnessing under the scope of modern-history and world affairs. Russia’s belligerent and “unjustifiable” invasion in Ukraine is one of the reasons why we are witnessing our NATO partners feel united for the first time since World War II and even during the Cold War. With the NATO Response Force activated, with Article(4) being triggered by most of our NATO partners in the eastern flank, with a rally of Western nations and democracies(both in Europe and in Asia) joining in unison on escalating their imposition of sanctions and export restrictions to the Russians, and with countries definite to pursue drastic changes on their traditional foreign policy doctrines(like Germany and Switzerland), these indications are sending signals to the rest of the world that our world systems have changed, our foreign policy doctrines have configured, and the dynamics of world affairs just experienced a tectonic shift over how several countries, including the ones in the West and some in Asia, would respond to such a maneuver pursued by autocracies, like Russia.

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