Russia Ukraine War A Moment Analysis

FILE - Pedestrians in lower Manhattan watch smoke billow from New York's World Trade Center on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Just this century, the 9/11 attacks in 2001, as the US launched a “shock and awe″ war on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq two years later, March 2020 as the pandemic began to sweep across the globe, killing millions and upending everything in its path, and most recently when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The latter brought ruinous war back to Europe’s heartland. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)