Crackling insights: Why the whole world will lose in Putin’s War: Tom Friedman

Crackling insights: Why the whole world will lose in Putin’s War: Tom Friedman

5 March 2022

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Here’s the riddle: no matter how it pans out, the whole world is going to lose Putin’s War.

Colliding information bubbles. Cancel culture. Super empowered citizens with smart-phones. Interconnected destinies.

In the hyper-connected 21st century, if you pull one thread badly, the whole fabric unravels.

As fighting intensifies in Ukraine, animated, introspective, worried, TOM FRIEDMAN — 3-time Pulitzer winner & arguably the world’s most famous trend-spotter — offers surprising insights on Russia, Ukraine, America, Europe, China, and India. And why he believes we are already in a World War: except it’s wired.

“A weak Russia is even more dangerous than a strong one,” he says. And regrets America’s foreign policy mistakes.