The war can only end on Moscow’s terms. The West’s inability to accept this harsh reality keeps Ukraine bleeding.
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The Russian president is quite close to drawing a thick red line in Eastern Europe that the West will have to respect.
Trump, Zelenskyy and the Europeans are desperately trying to deliver the bitter truth to the public and evade blame.
Those who set it on a path to full-scale war with Russia did.
US securocrats pushed for expansionist policies in the 1990s that set the West and Russia on a path of confrontation.
The Global South is not buying the Ukrainian claim to colonial victimhood.
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Brinkmanship in the war in Ukraine might be nearing its natural limits; this could pave the way for diplomacy.
Even if some Russians blame their president for failing to foil the attack, they have no other security guarantor.
The Russian presidential election outcome was expected and won’t change the Russian status quo; the US election could.
The Russian opposition doesn’t have the capacity to mobilise on the ground, but there is an alternative path.
