“Putin will not stop unless he is forced to,” writes Andriy Zagorodnyuk, former Ukrainian defence minister and chair of the Centre for Defense Strategies in Kyiv.
“It’s time to change the way we think about nuclear deterrence, and commit to securing victory.”
He’s 100% correct. Any deferment of hostilities is just that: deferment. We’ll pay for it in blood later, exponentially so. The sooner EU sees that a hot war with Russia is inevitable, and that entering it sooner rather than later is in our advantage, the better the eventual outcome.