La guerra de Ucrania

On February 24, Russia began the invasion of Ukraine. What was probably conceived as a coup to overthrow the Zelensky government, dismantle its armed forces and occupy the country with the units that Moscow had been concentrating for months near the Ukrainian border has resulted in a bloody conflict that has exceeded one hundred days long. It is not clear what its outcome will be, but the invasion is proving to be a military setback for Moscow. As the conflict progressed and the enormous shortcomings of the Russian armed forces were observed, the Kremlin has restricted its area of ??operations and limited its strategic objectives. We are facing the largest conflict on European soil since the Second World War and the first major conventional war since the invasion of Iraq almost twenty years ago. A conflict that is putting an end to the unipolar moment that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union, that will accelerate the decline of Russia and its rapprochement with China and that, regardless of its outcome, will mean the end of a liberal international order that is more aspirational than real . A conflict where a European Union apparently determined to become a geopolitical actor will have a difficult role to play.