As the G20 meets in Australia, the collateral damage from the Ukraine crisis affects both trade and nuclear weapons securityThe poison injected into international life by Russias intervention in Ukraine spreads apace. When Russia joined the G8 and the G20 in the late 90s, the idea was to integrate Moscow into the collaborative systems linking advanced states, an integration expected to be as political as it was economic. Now these encounters are more likely to be the scene of confrontation than of cooperation. This weekends G20 summit in Australia could well be dominated by Ukraine, with the less engaged powers …read more
Source: The Guardian
