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The Ukraine crisis has emerged as another major challenge and instigator for the ongoing transition in the much-stressed global order or disorder depending on the way one looks at it. The Russian invasion or ‘special military operation’ as Moscow terms it, was a combination and culmination of the ideological contest, political beliefs, real politics and disregard for genuine concerns, entitlement and abdication of diplomatic paths. It was often perceived that the next big war would happen in Asia as the unbridled growth of China and its military-economic ambitions would herald a situation where confrontation was the eventual outcome.