It's Tuesday, May 31st, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Some absolutely massive worldview dimensions of big foreign policy stories having to do primarily with Russia and China.

And we're going to be looking over the course of the

last several decades to understand some of those most basic issues and why

they're playing out right now in a big way in the headlines. Of course the

immediate reason for all the headlines related to Russia is

Russians now weeks-long invasion of Ukraine. And we've reached the point where

the big question is, where is this going to end and when is it going to end.

Now the background that's easy to understand.

Vladimir Putin was obviously very confident to the fact that the overwhelming power of Russia's military

would simply crush Ukraine, that the Ukrainian capital Kyiv would fall, that

Volunimir Zilinski, the president of Ukraine, will be toppled from power, and Ukraine would,

according to Putin's vision, once again become part of Mother Russia, the frontier of Russia

there in its Western side.

But that didn't happen.

Kieve held.

The Lonerzilinski is still the President of Ukraine.

Ukraine and its people have been fighting back heroically and Russia have been losing ground,

certainly in northern and in central Ukraine.

The most intense fighting right now is going on in the east in the region known as the

Don Bosse and there are more Russian speakers there it is of course closer to

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