What in the World?

As I write this, the lead story is that Russia is invading Ukraine. It feels to many people like yet another setback for those of us whose desire for peace and harmony seems to be consistently thwarted. The story this morning is all about bad behavior and punishment, or at least about consequences, for that behavior. When I think about the history of this and the previous century, I find it hard to identify any occasion on which punishment and consequences have actually rid the world of the bad behavior they were designed to counter. Why is that?