A financial war against Russia has begun across the world with the launch of a series of sanctions that have never been applied before. Countries like the U.S., France, Germany, and Canada have all removed Russian banks from Swift while also freezing Russian foreign reserves in their jurisdictions. The U.S. has put sanctions on Russian sovereign debt and banks as well as imposed restrictions on exporting technology that could aid intelligence services and oil drilling to Russia and Belarus.

As Clint Eastwood said, “Tomorrow is promised to no one.” The world is anything but static. Perhaps we should eliminate our generational demarcations—Z, Millennials, X, Baby Boomers—and just refer to us all as the “Whiplash Generation.”

We have now, all of us, looked into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s eyes and we are troubled by what we see.

I am Bruce Marks, an attorney in Philadelphia, who has represented clients in Ukraine for more than 20-years.

Courage is under fire in Ukraine. Margareta Kull, founder of Kull Leadership in Sweden and author of the new book, The Courageous Leader, dissects the internal thought process of the most courageous leaders and how Ukraine's President Zelensky exhibits it, and inspires his followers - the Ukrainian People - to also show amazing courage.

I have always been amazed at the confident abandon with which we use words like “due diligence,” as if we can accurately and fully read and understand every risk — past, present and future. The more information we have, the more surprised we seem to become by endless eventualities.

What worried you as a child? Maybe it was not having friends at your lunch table or embarrassing yourself in PE class?  For kids, those are real concerns.  Of course, they pale in comparison to adult anxieties, like deciding who to marry or how to make the next mortgage payment.