I have long felt that there is a rational solution, which all my friend, many of his friends, will hate. But anyway, i think we should be trying to freeze the situation until we do a deal on these lines. If that doesn't happen, or if putin prints it by acting militarily, then we are in a spectacularly dangerous situation. What happens then? I no ide it'sahead o head on conflicts between super powers of this kind. From a military point of view, russia is clearly a super power given that as thousands of nuclear warheads. It may not be a very big economy, but it can blow up the world. Whether a deal can be done
2022 looks set to be another seismic year. A new Covid-19 variant threatens to prolong the pandemic. A diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics looks likely to escalate tensions with China. And time is running out to ’keep 1.5 alive’, in spite of the commitments made at COP26. Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times and widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential writers on the global economy. He joins journalist Justin Webb to set out what he sees as the major trends that will shape the world in 2022.
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