Insight - First help Ukraine win the war. Then help it win the peace - by Ian Bond, 28 July 2022

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Insight - First help Ukraine win the war. Then help it win the peace - by Ian Bond, 28 July 2022

27 Jul 2022

Russia is also offering large financial incentives to teachers from impoverished Russian regions to move to Ukraine to teach the Russian language and the official version of Russian history to any remaining Ukrainian children; as in Crimea, there will be no education in the Ukrainian language. [...] They hope that that would give the Russians an incentive to come to the negotiating table and perhaps agree to return to the front lines of February 23rd 2022. [...] To strengthen Ukraine, the West needs both to accelerate the delivery of advanced weapons and to take a more radical approach to helping Ukraine build armed forces able to defeat Russia on the battlefield. [...] For Ukraine, on the other hand, the ability to put at risk Russian supply lines and command locations at any range from the front line to far in the rear would make it much harder for Russia to keep fighting on Ukrainian territory; and if Russian forces were forced to withdraw, Ukraine would be able to deter future cross-border strikes. [...] But the West cannot afford to leave Ukraine in ruins: if it does, the population will continue to emigrate; the economy will continue to contract; Ukrainian food production will not recover; and Ukraine will become a state permanently on the verge of failure.
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