How Can the War End
Category: New trendsThe complete shutdown of gas deliveries through Nord Stream 1 is an indication of how desperate the Russian leadership has become. There is now no path to military victory, but a clear chance that intensified economic warfare will break up the precarious solidarity in the European Union and destroy NATO. With that in itself, the major Russian war aim would be accomplished: for the attack was aimed not just at obliterating Ukraine but breaking down what Putin saw as a hostile “West.”
