Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was meant to inaugurate a new world order – one in which the security architecture that was developed after the Second World War, cemented in international agreements like the Helsinki Accords and events like the collapse of the Soviet Union, was overthrown. That order was built and powered by the military and economic might of the United States. If Russia could invade and reshape a European state, an American friend, without challenge, the result would effectively be a new and ‘multipolar’ world. It would be a world where the United States was not the only hegemon…