How Wars Don’t End
Ukraine, Russia, and the Lessons of World War I
Historian Margaret MacMillan compares World War I with the current conflict in Ukraine: “In 1914 and in 2022 alike, those who assumed war wasn’t possible were wrong”; “Like Nicholas, Putin remembered a humiliation”; “the fast-war Falacy” is applicable to both conflicts.
A vivid and timely reflection on how wars, once started, create their own dynamics that block possible avenues towards peace.
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