Ironically, neither Ukraine nor the world might have feared this larger global peril if Ukraine had not been one of four countries -- the other three being Argentina, Brazil and South Africa -- to have voluntarily renounced nuclear weapons in their hope of ushering in a safer world for mankind

xSpeaking in Kolkata recently, external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar warned listeners that it wasn’t a pun when he said that “politics increasingly trumps economics” in our era. Indeed, the threat of a world war looms over the world largely because US President Donald Trump’s so-called 28-point peace plan appears to condone Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ironically, neither Ukraine nor the world might have feared this larger global peril if Ukraine had not been one of four countries -- t

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