A year ago Putin launched his illegal war against Ukraine. How will it end? No way to know, but Putin is not going to get what he wants, and Ukraine is unlikely to get what it wants, which includes reparations, war crime trials, etc.
One historian has predicted that the most likely ending will resemble the armistice signed in Korea 73 years ago. South Korea has become a healthy and adaptable member of the West. Meanwhile North Korea struggles with poverty under a rigid family dictatorship.
Things can worsen. China might resupply Russia with offensive weapons. Our species may be in the process of splitting into an East v. West confrontation, a Third World War, a nuclear exchange. We may be that irrational.
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