Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Putin’s War Is Trashing 80 Years of Globalization

So much for an interconnected world order of relative peace and prosperity.

March 18, 2022 at 9:11 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Growing apart.
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