Much like Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the war in Ukraine is now another “frozen conflict” derived from the fall of the Soviet Union.

What the Kremlin calls its “near abroad,” is now an escalating proxy war between two nuclear superpowers.

Dangerous stuff we have here.

As global diplomats look for a path forward to peace, Kyiv’s Western allies should help Ukrainian forces regain as much territory as possible to force some kind of peace.

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