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Terrorist Attack on Jerusalem Synagogue Leaves 7 Dead
Jerusalem’s worst terror attack since 2008 is the latest sign of a growing wave of violence and conflict sweeping across the globe.
“Are we headed toward a ‘polycrisis’?” asked the liberal media outlet Vox of its readers yesterday.
The word, we are told, was the “buzzword of the moment” in Davos this year — as if escalating military conflicts in multiple theaters around the world were this season’s hottest new fashion trend.
The word may be novel, but it hardly needs a lengthy explainer. Anyone with internet access and five minutes to spare can learn all they can stand to know about our current state of geopolitical “polycrisis”.
The February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin sent the world into a haze of shock from which we may not have yet emerged. It is still amazing to many news consumers that World War III, which wasn’t even a whisper on the wind two years ago, is looming as an all too real possibility in 2023.
As the Ukraine/Russia conflict nears the year mark, an increasingly desperate Vladimir Putin is looking in askance at Ukraine's allies like the United States and Germany.
From material support to advanced weapons defense systems to tanks; Ukraine wants fighter jets next. Germany has thus…