Putin’s heinous attack on Ukraine could well bring us to the brink of war in Europe

The implications are far-reaching—the Cold War we all thought had ended has not, and the arc of the post-war period towards a rules-based system of sovereign nations has been upended. For Canada, a middle power which punched above its weight during the first Cold War, now is the time to step up again in several areas.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured in Moscow on March 18, 2022. It took Vladimir Putin’s vicious and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine to wake up the world to the fact that he is a Soviet-era, ultra-nationalist and expansionist, write Kevin Lynch and Paul Deegan.Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY KEVIN LYNCH AND PAUL DEEGAN

March 31, 2022

OTTAWA—It took Vladimir Putin’s vicious and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine to wake up the world to the fact that he is a Soviet-era, ultra-nationalist and expansionist. This, despite the fact that he has exhibited these behaviours in Chechnya, Crimea, Georgia, and Syria. The implications are far...

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