John Bruni Founder & CEO SAGE International Host of the STRATEGIKON & The Focus Podcasts & CDRE Patrick Tyrrell OBE RN (Ret’d) Chair of the SAGE International Advisory Board I n a Romano-Christian world, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse represented the quintessence of evil and a harbinger of the end of the world as we know it. [...] Unfortunately, over the past thirty years, following the end of the Cold War, this has been more of an aspiration than a fact: the ruling on China’s claim to maritime territoriality in the South China Sea was just one of the rulings ignored by a powerful nation. [...] The recent Russian successes in Mariupol and the one they might be on the cusp of in Severodonetsk may give Putin and his General Staff hope that they can weather the economic storm and grind on to victory. [...] The West needs to step up to the plate to ensure that the realities of the war are fully understood both in Russia and China. [...] It will take months rather than days to move from the battlefields of the Donbas to the halls of Geneva; if the West falters, the future will go to the authoritarian, corrupt and autocratic.
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