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Ukraine’s wins will start reshaping the politics of this war
Russia had hoped to break Ukraine with a gas war on the West. Now it looks as though the battlefield will be decisive.
Ross DouthatContributorThe summer of war in Ukraine, while brutal for soldiers and civilians on the front lines, has been experienced from afar as a stalemate, depressing enough in its grinding sameness to slip out of American headlines for a time.
The northern hemisphere autumn and winter will be different, supplying answers to the two questions that will determine the war’s duration. First, how much territory can Ukraine liberate from Russian occupation? Second, how grim and desperate will the European winter be with normal Russian energy supplies cut off, and what political consequences will follow?
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