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In a wired and globalised world, three scenarios for how Ukraine war ends

With each TikTok video and cellphone shot showing Vladimir Putin's brutality, it will be harder and harder for anyone to look away.

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A demonstrator holds a placard depicting a Russia's President Vladimir Putin as he attends a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in front of the Russian embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Photo: AP/PTI

Thomas L Friedman | NYT
The battle for Ukraine unfolding before our eyes has the potential to be the most transformational event in Europe since World War II and the most dangerous confrontation for the world since the Cuban missile crisis. I see three possible scenarios for how this story ends. I call them “the full-blown disaster,” “the dirty compromise” and “salvation.”

The disaster scenario is now underway: Unless Vladimir Putin has a change of heart or can be deterred by the West, he appears willing to kill as many people as necessary and destroy as much of Ukraine’s infrastructure as necessary to erase Ukraine as