Don’t expect the war in Ukraine to end quickly

Financial Times/Gideon Rachman/3-21-2022

“‘Tell me how this ends?’ is one of those things that people say in films — and sometimes also in real life. It is the crucial question about the war in Ukraine — but one that is sometimes obscured by the sheer drama and horror of day-to-day events.”

USAGOLD note: Nobody, including Putin, believed that the war in Ukraine might become a Russian quagmire, but quagmire it is. Rachman raises issues that most of us would rather ignore. The tide of events, he suggests, might offer a different end game, but ultimately expect the worst – a prolonged war.