China made a truce agreement in the trade tariff war with the US, but it hasn't backed down in asserting its claims both to India, and to Europe and America.
Zelensky's lobbying of legislators is a demonstration of his complete lack of confidence in government support for him as the legitimate president of Ukraine.
Viable prospects for peaceful settlement of conflict between Moscow and Kyiv exist, but Europe obsesses over threat of incursion onto European territory.
The aftermath of the Covid 19 pandemic has seen a global turn to stagflation, in which the cost of good and services increases regardless of economic growth.