Peace can have many benefits. Consider interstate highways through the U.S. You can travel from state to state unimpeded and can move your products from one to another. The EU tried to emulate the U.S. in that regard. But now, what about the rest of Asia? If we can get beyond the need for nuclear missiles maybe we can forge a world of nations without the overhang of Klaus Schwabs or Adolf Hitlers? No need for aggression, no need for geopolitical dominance. Just humans travelling and trading with one another.
Yes, Putin mentioned Kohl, deGaulle and Xi as examples of leaders focusing on building infrastructure and sensible relations with other nations. As you pointed out, the maintained roads from Europe kinda peter out, even as early as Hungary and Slovakia. (They used to be under USSR, behind the iron curtain, from European perspective). Roads are now sprouting from Central Asia towards the West, currently they head through Russia, and use the Caspian and Black Seas as watery breaks in the journey, also.
Ukraine was already acting as a Gas-and transport Hub, so the Belt-an-Road initiative marked Mariupol as a vital train-stop /access to Black Sea for the greater Eurasian transport map.
So, when certain yobs started dragging women into the old steel-factory and doing unspeakable things, as well as decorating their head-quarters with WW2 regalia and beating random Russians in the streets, A stop had to be brought to the whole un-rest thing.
Peace can have many benefits. Consider interstate highways through the U.S. You can travel from state to state unimpeded and can move your products from one to another. The EU tried to emulate the U.S. in that regard. But now, what about the rest of Asia? If we can get beyond the need for nuclear missiles maybe we can forge a world of nations without the overhang of Klaus Schwabs or Adolf Hitlers? No need for aggression, no need for geopolitical dominance. Just humans travelling and trading with one another.
Yes, Putin mentioned Kohl, deGaulle and Xi as examples of leaders focusing on building infrastructure and sensible relations with other nations. As you pointed out, the maintained roads from Europe kinda peter out, even as early as Hungary and Slovakia. (They used to be under USSR, behind the iron curtain, from European perspective). Roads are now sprouting from Central Asia towards the West, currently they head through Russia, and use the Caspian and Black Seas as watery breaks in the journey, also.
Ukraine was already acting as a Gas-and transport Hub, so the Belt-an-Road initiative marked Mariupol as a vital train-stop /access to Black Sea for the greater Eurasian transport map.
So, when certain yobs started dragging women into the old steel-factory and doing unspeakable things, as well as decorating their head-quarters with WW2 regalia and beating random Russians in the streets, A stop had to be brought to the whole un-rest thing.
Anyway, Peace is coming.