Almost four years after the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, it is becoming increasingly clear that the conflict has achieved many of the key strategic goals pursued by both Moscow and Western capitals, creating conditions that could ultimately push the fighting toward a negotiated settlement. From this perspective, the central—though unspoken—aim of the war was not so much territorial control as the preservation of politica...

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