• ALBERTO RED

    @rojas1977

  • ELSA MARTIN

    @elsa_millan

  • JAVIER AGUIRRE

Updated Thursday, February 24, 2022-13:12

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The gears of history have turned into gear again.

Following a global pandemic, Vladimir Putin has elevated the Donbass conflict, which began in 2014, to a war of as yet unknown scale.

Time will tell if it remains a local clash between two countries or a global confrontation involving nuclear powers.

What we know is that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been completed.

With his armed aggression, the Russian president has not only consolidated his control of Belarus, a puppet of Moscow at the moment, but has also closed his military jaws on a sovereign country.

With the excuse of Kiev's desired entry into NATO, Putin has put a democratic state on the ropes that calls into question his very existence as an autocrat.

The immediate consequences are the departure of tens of thousands of refugees towards the borders of Slovakia and Poland and a fall in the stock market of the entire planet,

but especially that of Russia, which loses almost half of its value.

Meanwhile, Putin has managed to get NATO to reinforce its entire eastern flank and its allies to be more united than ever.

A new Iron Curtain rises in Europe.

Source:

Electoral Geography, The Washington Post,

Maxar

Technologies (satellite image of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine), EOM and own calculations

Information:

Alberto Rojas.

Infographics:

Javier Aguirre and Elsa Martín

Art direction:

María González Manteca.

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