“I look at the world and see so much conflict, hostility and confrontation, I wonder if this is the year the Nobel Peace Prize should be withheld,” said Dan Smith, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
The Nobel Prizes to be announced against a backdrop of wars, famine and artificial intelligence
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"While Putin may be counting on the West's support for the war fragmenting, the West is counting on the war bankrupting Putin's regime," he said. "Neither assumption is a sure thing, [but] neither is impossible."
Russia's military budget boost indicates Putin aims to stay in Ukraine, analysts claim
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