Nicolas Baverez: ‘Violence is becoming trivialized and radicalized’ Two years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the world turned upside down. The Ukrainian War constitutes the matrix of the 21st century, as the French Revolution was that of the 19th century and the Great War was the 20th century.
Any form of international order has disappeared to give way to a multipolar and chaotic system, marked by the rise to the extremes of violence and its escape from all control.