A Growing Nuclear Threat Requires a Diplomatic Solution to the Russo-Ukrainian War

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The current controversy centers less on why the war started and more on how to end it. Publicly, the Ukrainian government aspires to victory, full Russian withdrawal, and the return of every inch of territory Moscow has taken since 2014, including the Crimean Peninsula and the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian population mostly agrees. The anger and trauma resulting from Moscow’s atrocities have cemented Ukrainians’ political unity and sense of nationalism. However, intense nationalist feelings in any country often become a type of zealotry, an uncompromising insistence that a nation’s future is fated to be optimal even despite evidence that its allies and enemies will not conform in ways that will make that preferred future a reality. More

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