Historian Timothy Snyder on how the Ukraine war might end, and why a nuclear detonation is still extremely unlikely:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/how-do...ign=auto_share
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War is ultimately about politics. That Ukraine is winning on the battlefield matters because Ukraine is exerting pressure on Russian politics. Tyrants such as Putin exert a certain fascination, because they give the impression that they can do what they like. This is not true, of course; and their regimes are deceptively brittle. The war ends when Ukrainian military victories alter Russian political realities, a process which I believe has begun.
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