The issue has become global. The events prompted, at the start, by Ukraine's difficulties have progressively snowballed to the point of directly involving the three main world powers - the European Union, Russia as a whole (with other countries of the former USSR) and the US. The media's tendency for sensationalism has exaggerated the seriousness of the situation to the point of giving rise to the feeling of a world war - or nearly.
This world conflict has fortunately now been set aside and...