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Ukraine’s push to freeze the front lines suggests that the writing is on the wall for Kyiv’s original war aims, while the West faces a reckoning overpromises it may struggle to keep. As Moscow turns battlefield gains into diplomatic leverage, the proof of the pudding will be whether Western ambitions can survive the hard realities of war.

This phenomenon has been described by political scientists long ago. A recognition of this fact by someone who was close to former president Joe Biden is quite impressive.

Perhaps the most dangerous question facing Europe is no longer whether Russia and NATO could come into direct conflict, but where such a confrontation would begin—and how quickly it could spin out of control and draw everyone in.