Anne Applebaum documents the shift of momentum in the Ukraine-russia war in an essay in The Atlantic. Ukraine has changed world warfare forever and in the process created a stalemate at its border. Anne, an expert on Ukraine's history who wrote a definitive account of Stalin's Holodomor, outlines the possible moves Putin and Zelenskyy could make to end the war. A demilitarised zone like that between North and South Korea is a possibility. That would require concessions on Ukraine's part, but as there is nothing left where the russians conquered, there is little to recover but destroyed territory. The people are gone, the cultural institutions are gone. Is that the price for peace?
Perhaps. And it would mean that Putin loses. He has lost his status in the world. He has sacrificed millions of his soldiers. He has gambled away russia's economic prospects. He will retreat to his palaces and shrink away to nothing.
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