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World must resolve conflict in Ukraine before it spills over into something much worse

While the West is right to support Ukraine’s survival, we will at some point need some kind of modus-vivendi that all of the parties can live with, however reluctantly, and bring conflict to an end. This will require concessions on all sides.

Vladimir Putin's Eyes, art installation. Re-establishing that 'legitimacy' is the world’s biggest future challenge if we are to minimize future risks of conflict and solve global problems. This won’t be achieved as the U.S. is trying to do by dividing the world into a zero-sum competition between democracies and autocracies. It will be achieved by designing the guidelines for a workable world community. That requires a different kind of statesmanship, writes David Crane. Image courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 14, 2022

TORONTO—Nothing is more urgent today than to resolve the conflict over Ukraine before it spills over into something much worse. As Barbara Tuchman once reminded us, in The Guns of August and The March to Folly, events can quickly escalate out of control and major wars can happen ...

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