A week into operation Epic Fury, it does seem to be living up to its title, although, perhaps, not in the way intended. The expanding geography of the strikes and skyrocketing energy prices have put many American allies in a bind between bad and worse, unable to move either way. Where is this war taking the already shattered global system? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Pietro Shakarian, an historian and lecturer at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan