The invasion of Ukraine has triggered the biggest global geopolitical tsunami this century, and among its consequences is that it will once again split the world - if it was ever united - into two Cold War-style blocs.
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He is 47 years old and has been on nine international missions. When he was appointed to the last one, he didn't know that the whole world was going to look where he was going, to the Eastern flank of Europe. He is now in command of the Spanish contingent participating in the NATO mission deployed in Latvia.
The last leader of the erstwhile mighty Soviet empire, Mikhail S. Gorbachev passed away on 30th August 2022 at the ripe age of 91 in a hospital in Moscow. The former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union (1985-90) and President of the USSR (1990-91) was the de-facto ruler of the country and is rightly remembered as a leader of global stature who was instrumental in bringing about a revolutionary change in world order.