The war in Ukraine is dragging on for over two months now. I believe the Russians have multiple objectives to achieve – military, political and economic. The military objective appears to be in eastern Ukraine (Luhansk and Donetsk in the Donbas region). The economic (and political) objectives appear to be to break the “hegemony” of the US Dollar, and breaking US ‘dominance’ over Europe and perhaps the world. The economic and political objectives have not been fully achieved yet though there are cracks appearing in Europe and there has been some success in getting the oil trade to shift away...