The war is more than three months old. The early optimism that Putin was headed for a humiliating comeuppance is gradually being replaced by a more pessimistic realism about the extent to which the West should continue to respond as Ukraine’s ability to halt the Russian advance diminishes. The truth is, however uncomfortable it may be to accept, that Ukraine was and remains an “object” of great power relations and not a “subject” of international order’.
When Henry Kissinger said the war needed to stop with Putin left in control of eastern Ukraine, he was acknowledging that on this occasion, geopolitical necessity dictates that the aggressor must win. If Canada or Mexico were to join an alliance actively hostile to the US, they would rapidly discover the limits of their independence. Quickly.
So time to get over it and move on before you help bring more destruction down, which is all the cheer leading is doing.
