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“Deadly missile attacks shut down Riyadh airport. Russian strikes on Ukraine kill more than 100 civilians across the country. Poland warns of the danger of Russian attacks inside the EU causing fatalities. China begins a six-day live-fire exercise along its coast. All of these events took place over the past week” – Financial Times (FT), Gideon Rachman, sourced from ’Are we sleepwalking into World War III?’, 17 October 2026.
“It’s really building up, eh?”
Beyond symbolism
I wasn’t sure what to add or whether ...