Russia – Ukraine: too much history, too little future

How do people like me and my team, who are working intensively on the future and on strategies for the future, deal with the Russia-Ukraine war? How can there still be a bright future? Bright future my ass. We’ve been asked that a lot recently. I don’t want to presume to have the whole picture. Nobody has. But we can learn a few things about how to deal with the future.

Russia has no positive image of the future. Russia’s bright future lies only in the restoration of a supposedly glorious past. Which the Ukrainians remember differently…