Endgame: Navigating the Ukraine War in a Turbulent World

I never imagined that I would be writing an article with a title like this. The idea, back in early 2022, that Europe could sustain a major ground war for three years, and that at that doleful point, no one had a clear plan for the way ahead and how things would end would have seemed preposterous. Surely ‘they’ (a very undefined term) would have realised by now that something so infinitely dangerous could simply not be allowed to on for so long? But so it has proved. After the first brief period of strategic manoeuvre in which the Russians did so much worse than many of us expected, the war ha…