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“Every day ... we hear the sounds of falling bombs, planes and helicopters circling in the sky,” wrote a BU parent.

Given the current state of global energy supply, this isn’t a hard conclusion to come to. What is ironic is that after almost a century of Western political cooperation, the very principles of economic interdependence that created the cohesive Western system have now become its main stumbling block.