The writer is author of ‘Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine’
There has been a significant shift in western attitudes to Ukraine’s war with Russia. Thinking has moved a long way since the hopes earlier in the war that it would be enough to keep Ukraine in the fight until an opportunity for a peaceful settlement came along. The consensus now among leading western states is that the only way to persuade Russia that it cannot succeed in its war of conquest is for Ukraine’s armed forces to liberate much more territory.
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