Before the great Ukrainian offensive

The Ukrainians are constrained by their own lack of means and the restrictions imposed on them by the NATO powers to wage a strictly limited war: only against military targets, and only on their own territory. Paradoxically, this operates to their advantage, since it prevents them from doing wasteful and irrelevant things.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here’s some bad news on the ‘peace’ front. Most wars do not end in ‘negotiations’. There may be a peace treaty, but it usually just ratifies what has already happened on the battlefield: the Congress of Vienna, the Treaty of Versailles, and the Dayton Accords.Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 5, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—Yevgeny Prigozhin's stunt on April 3 when he held a Russian flag in his hands and declared that his ‘Wagner’ mercenary soldiers have finally conquered the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut probably marks the end of the Russian winter offensive. It was just a chara...

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