"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"--Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
It is very good phrase to sum up what happened (and happening) the last few months.
In Nov and Dec 2021, we were worrying about a new, very transmissible variant of covid that would bring even more deaths. Now, a few months gone by and everyone no longer consider covid as the largest threat to our society.
Back in December 2021, Everyone was still thinking that the inflation is "transitory", meaning the inflation would stabilise at a lower single digit figure in few years time. Now, we are worrying about a long term stagflation due to zero-covid policy in China disrupting the supply chain, Russia invasion of Ukraine and so on.
Partygate dominate the news of the UK in late Jan/early feb, everyone was predicting Boris Johnson would be gone by Feb. Now, hardly anyone remember this and Boris seat in the parliament seems to be safe for now.
Back in Jan, no one was seriously considering the possibility of a full-scale invasion on Ukraine by Russia, yet it happened. The invasion ended the neutrality of the Swiss, turning the poll in Finland on joining NATO, ending the pacifist stance of European governments, influx of 2+ million refugees in 3 weeks time. so on and so forth.
Russia has united Ukrainian, and European countries, a task that was considered impossible and unachievable. Russian also boosted many NATO countries defense budget to above 2% of their GDP, a task that none of the last 4 US president able to accomplish.
Ukraine invasion provided so much insight in many aspect, war is not only about superiority in number and firepower, but also logistics, stealth/manoeuvring , cybersecurity, financial sanctions and corporation level boycott.
Life is going back to pre-pandemic style, even though the cases is surging, no one seems to care anymore. Traveling is also going back to pre pandemic, vaccination proof would become obsolete soon.
Life changes so quickly, nevertheless, people will adopt swiftly.
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