Ukraine

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Ukraine: How to Avoid Escalation and End the War

The main goal must be to facilitate peace in Ukraine with a view to maintaining shared security in wider Europe and beyond

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Here’s The Deal That Could End The Russia-Ukraine War Now

As the Russian war in Ukraine enters its second week, it’s time to make Putin an offer to end the fighting. The United States and NATO have implicitly staked out a maximalist position: Putin retreats and the pre-war status quo is reestablished. That’s morally defensible but not going to happen without weeks of fighting.

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Russia’s Ukraine Invasion May Have Been Preventable

The U.S. refused to reconsider Ukraine’s NATO status as Putin threatened war. Experts say that was a huge mistake.

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Biden is Right to Rule Out a ‘No-Fly Zone’ in Ukraine

It would not only split NATO, but could end up being one of the most disastrous foreign policy gambits ever taken by the US.

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How America Can Really Help Ukraine

The United States needs to start thinking about solutions that will lessen the number of people killed. That’s different from devoting all our efforts to hurting the Russians.

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Peter Hitchens: One glorious day in Sevastopol 12 years ago, I saw what was coming. That’s why I won’t join this carnival of hypocrisy

In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine.

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Are We Cheering on Ukraine to Destruction?

We’re just ten days into Russia’s assault on Ukraine and the western world has painted itself in Ukraine’s colours. Cities and towns have hung out Ukrainian flags and lit their public buildings in blue and gold. The BBC has changed the pronunciation of the Ukrainian capital from Kiev to Kyiv. Tesco is driving the supermarkets’ charge to rename chicken Kiev.

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By Using Ukraine to Fight Russia, the US Provoked Putin’s War

After backing a far-right coup in 2014, the US has fueled a proxy war in eastern Ukraine that has left 14,000 dead. Russia’s invasion is an illegal and catastrophic response.

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The Predictable Vladimir Putin

Putin’s bets are not that of an erratic dictator but rather of a calculating leader keen to sustain his country’s finances and leverage

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Ukraine as Swiss Mongolia: Neutrality as an End to War

Even without downplaying the shock and disappointment most felt when Russia invaded Ukraine, it is perhaps more disheartening how many astute and highly-respected analysts/academics around the world deftly argued for a strategy that should have worked but was roundly shoved aside by Western powers: pushing for and explicitly formalizing Ukrainian neutrality might have entirely avoided this 8-year morass that has engulfed Ukraine since the Crimean conflict.