War

 NY Times: Russia-Ukraine War - Putin Frames Illegal Annexation as Part of Existential Battle With West RIGHT NOW Ukraine submits application to join NATO, with big hurdles ahead.

...decried the United States for “Satanism” in a speech that marked an escalation in Moscow’s war against Ukraine and positioned Russia, in starkly confrontational terms, as fighting an existential battle with Western elites he deemed “the enemy.”