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Opinion > Columns
What we should learn from the Ukraine war
By Ricardo Saludo
Apr 10, 2022 12:08 am

REPUBLIC SERVICE

LESSON No. 1: In battling big powers, especially those with mammoth forces and nuclear weapons like China and Russia, one cannot be sure that allies, even superpower America, would fight on one's side.

Before Russia's invasion, the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance it leads loudly maintained that Ukraine should be allowed to join any grouping it wished.

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