Although the war is going on between Russia and Ukraine, its impact will be unprecedented on the whole world in the near future.
I disagree. It is also clear from the past month that it is not affecting the "whole" world. It is just affecting Russia and Ukraine (obviously!) and any country that depended on these two countries for goods (wheat, energy, ...) namely many of the European countries. It is also affecting countries with big but weak economies, that would be U.S.
Government spending of finite resources is allocated between guns (defense) and butter (civilian goods).
There is nothing new about this!
That shows that world nations have been focusing more on ~ trying to have peaceful relationships with other nations,
You do realize that this is not the only war going on right?
It is not even the biggest one in the past decade (geographically, number of casualties, duration, destruction, people displacement, number of countries involved). If they were focusing on peaceful relations we wouldn't have had this many wars so far!
Do you think that this is not the biggest war in the last decade? It is hardly worth agreeing with this. Now, actually and directly, three states are participating in the war: Russia, which unleashed it, Belarus, from whose territory Russian troops invaded, fighters and bombers take off, and high-precision missiles are launched, as well as Ukraine, which was attacked. The war is now being waged on the territory of Ukraine, but it may well be transferred to the territory of other belligerent countries. Military airfields in the Rostov region of Russia, warehouses with fuel and ammunition in Belgorod have already been attacked, today a railway bridge in the Belgorod region was blown up, along which the Russians transferred equipment and ammunition to Ukraine. Now evaluate what common territory these three belligerent states occupy.
However, more and more states are indirectly drawn into this war due to the support of Ukraine with weapons. The United States, other NATO countries, England and even countries that were considered neutral and non-bloc provided the strongest support with weapons. Recently, the United States decided to help Ukraine through Lend-Lease, which has not happened since the Second World War. And this is not only weapons, but also medicines, any equipment and even food. Today, the EU countries have unanimously decided to support Ukraine with weapons, and we are already talking about tanks and other heavy weapons. Finland and Norway also decided to support Ukraine with weapons. The scale of the conflict is growing.
It would not be out of place to recall that Russia has already lost in Ukraine killed and wounded more than 40,000 of its military, 732 tanks, 1946 armored vehicles, 157 aircraft, 140 helicopters, 349 artillery systems, 111 multiple launch rocket systems, 63 air defense systems, 1406 vehicles, 124 UAV, 7 ships and other equipment. The numbers are impressive. She had not suffered such losses before in any wars since the Second World War.
After the defeat, Russia is now regrouping and concentrating its troops and equipment in eastern Ukraine, where grandiose battles are planned with the participation of thousands of tanks, aircraft and other equipment. Experts are already saying that this will be reminiscent of the biggest battles of World War II.
What military conflicts of recent decades can compare with this?