It seems a good, if not vital, moment to try and look beyond the narrow analysis of the dreadful war in Ukraine provided by the vast majority of our politicians and mainstream media, given the current conflation of related and significant events all happening around the same time.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is currently visiting the US to drum up further military support for his beleaguered country – including being able to fire western missiles deep into Russia – while Russian President Vladimir Putin is again warning that the nuclear option is not off the table if Russia feels threatened enough, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is saying that if he becomes the next US President he will end the war in Ukraine.