The means to manage an end to US involvement in the Ukraine war is the subject of this post, which treats two major studies by the RAND Corporation.
I will compare the first, from 2019, which outlined the initial war aims and the suggested means of achieving them with the second, published last week.
This second report is an admission of failure on all counts and identifies the US national interest with a swift and durable negotiated end to the war.
Readers will be aware of my view that the war could not have ever been won on the ground by the US led effort. Hopes for victory relied on a regime change in Russia which never came. Here is the evidence in long form that the West has lost the war.
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