This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchler.

The headlines from London tell the story of crisis in the Dnapa River Valley.

Russian troops swept away by flood waters rights the telegraph.

Mass plague of fish washes ashore after Ukraine dam destruction rights the telegraph.

Russian attack on Harrison Dam could alter Ukraine's strategy rights the telegraph.

We're looking at a crisis underway after the breaching of the dam in the Dnapa River Valley

and the peak water sweeping away villages and were told soldiers prepared for the counteroffensive,

the long-awaited counteroffensive in Ukraine.

What does this mean in the sweep of history of the last hundred plus years?

And I welcome Victor Davis Hansen of the Hoover Institution who spoke the second world wars

informs pieces of what we're witnessing now in the contest on the border of Russia and Ukraine.

Victor, a very good evening to you.

Thank you for this.

Your book of the second world wars I was reminded.

Your major theme is that it wasn't one global war.

It was a lot of regional wars that knitted together with the grand metaphor of a global war against

and then the Hitlerites or the imperial Japanese Navy.

But right now we're watching a global war in Europe.

I mean a regional war in Europe that is not yet a global war.

It could move that way, but it hasn't yet attempted.

What is the significance of identifying that Russia and Ukraine are fighting a regional war?

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