What makes the RAND Corporation’s latest report on Ukraine so significant, is not the quality of the analysis, but the fact that the nation’s most prestigious national security think-tank has taken an opposite position on the war than the Washington political class and their globalist allies. This is a huge deal.

Keep in mind, wars don’t end because the public opposes them. That is a myth. Wars end when a critical split emerges between elites that eventually leads to a change in policy. The RAND Corporation’s new report, “Avoiding a long war: US policy and the trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, ” represents such a split. It indicates that powerful elites have broken with the majority opinion because they think the current policy is hurting the United States.

We believe this shift in perspective is going to gain momentum until it triggers a more-assertive demand for negotiations. In other words, the RAND report is the first step towards ending the war.



https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2510-1.html

Are we now going to beg Putin to have mercy?

Sinking since February 2022. The war would be 1 year in a few days from I can take Kyiv in 2 weeks if I want. Despite all the help from shitholes Iran and North Korea.

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Sinking since February 2022. The war would be 1 year in a few days from I can take Kyiv in 2 weeks if I want. Despite all the help from shitholes Iran and North Korea.

How is Iran a shithole? You sound so myopic. Overflowing with western media misinformation. Iran is a shithole because isreal has nuclear weapon and Iran is not supposed to have? Have you asked yourself why the west and NATO are so interested in Ukraine? Ukraine is not Europe nor NATO yet, europe and NATO are the major backers of the war. Lemme ask you, do you think US will allow russia establish a military base in Mexico? Listen less to western media and research more before you write cuz it appears you make more sense when you are mute

But one thing is already crystal clear: While the war is not yet over, Ukraine has lost. Grasping that, we must first bring the fighting quickly to an end. Then we must mourn the dead. And, finally, we must get on with the task of rebuilding the country that Vladimir Putin has destroyed. Andrew Latham is a professor of international relations at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., and a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter @aalatham https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3261607-the-war-is-not-yet-over-but-ukraine-has-already-lost/