Lessons From The Ukraine War

At last, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has cautiously agreed to a 30-day energy and infrastructure ceasefire in the three-year war, effective at the start of this week. The result underscores Zelenskyy’s massive miscalculation and the reckless support some foreign powers assured him of from the very outset. Even as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterates unspecified “unwavering support” to Ukraine, there is nothing to gloat over beleaguered Zelenskyy’s back down from his three-year stand. The entire event offers a lesson that absurdly overwhelming reliance on big power support can lead to entrapment with an uncertain or disastrously disgraceful exit.