The best guarantee of Ukraine’s future security will be the state’s financial, military and institutional capacity to respond effectively to the Russian threat. But for that to happen, the rent of corruption must be minimised.
The continuation of the Russian-Ukrainian war may be beneficial to a certain extent for various actors in global politics. However, the motives of each player differ.
The future German government is losing support even before it starts working: the CDU/CSU bloc has lost the top spot in the polls to Alternative for Germany, and 60% of Germans believe that Merz is not fit to be chancellor.
You can achieve much more with a gun and a kind word than just a kind word. Trump has a gun. But he has not yet demonstrated enough determination to put it to Putin's temple.