Asian nations must keep these realities in mind as they navigate the Sino-US conflict centred essentially on Taiwan, because what is happening in Europe today could occur in Asia tomorrow.
Neither side is winning, two years and more after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 in an escalation of a war that had begun with the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Indeed, there are no prospects of victory. The lesson for Russia is that invasions are inherently wrong (apart from being unlawful) and that territorial expansionism does not lead to national security. The lesson for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) is that its strategic expansion in Europe, which invited the Russian invasion, does not work either.
