May Putin win something? Then you are a realist

Now that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for one year, Ukraine is demanding –and receiving– more and more weapons from the West.

A decade ago, if you started taking stock of which politicians were threatened and by whom, it quickly became clear where the greatest danger came from: from Islamic extremists.

One of the most significant social schisms of today, and possibly of the years to come, is the climate. Now, you could easily fill a whole series of episodes of this column on that because the topic is, after all, broad. But it is always good to make big problems small by focusing on one sub-theme.