Editorial: When the war ends

The prevalent and essentially pessimistic scenarios regarding international politics project that the energy and inflation crises will get worse, that the Russo-Ukrainian war will be protracted, that Putin is prepared and ready to use nuclear weapons, and that the planet will be in a state of upset and plunge into geopolitical and other, multifarious crises.

These scenarios, by extension, see Greece as being additionally rocked by the hysterical aggressiveness of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

However, there are other, less popular, readings of international political realities that point to entirely different and far more optimistic prospects.

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According to these readings, despite much talk to the contrary, we are at the threshold of a dynamic development in international politics, that derives not from an apparent, but in fact an already accomplished, defeat of the Russian Army in the fields of Ukraine.

The common conviction in Western political and military circles is that the myth of Russia having second strongest military in the world has literally collapsed.

The Russian armed forces have lost, within a span of seven months, tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of high-level military officers.

The Russian Air Force was not able to act.

The Russian Navy in the Black Sea proved unable to carry out effective operations, and armoured vehicles became easy targets for the flexible Ukrainian forces.

Over 1,000 Russian tank have been lost, and many of them have been taken by the forces of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

It was demonstrated that Russian supply chains did not work, and so Russian soldiers ran...