Ukraine: No easy path to peace
Victory rhetoric at odds with Russian fantasies of total war
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7 min readApr 1, 2022
There’s a lot of “Ukraine can win” talk around suddenly, in part prompted by Russia’s withdrawal north of Kyiv. Today’s Economist, for example, asserts that “the side that is contemplating victory is not Russia but Ukraine”. Meanwhile, the White House claims to have “incontrovertible evidence” that Russia’s war…