Article Summary From “The Economist” Magazine “When And How Might The Fighting End?”

Article summary from “The Economist” magazine “When and how might the fighting end?”.

The author states that the war in Ukraine split West and Western countries into two broad camps. The “peace party,” which wants to end hostilities and start negotiations as soon as possible. The other is the “justice party,” which believes that Russia needs to avenge its aggression. While a lot of European countries are calling for a ceasefire and speaking about political settlement about this problem, other countries like the Baltic states ranged against them.

The author points out that there are worries that the longer the fighting continues, the higher the human and economic losses for Ukraine and the rest of the world will be. The justice camp retorts that sanctions against Russia are just starting to take effect and Ukraine can win with more time and more and better weapons. There are two conflicting concerns behind all of this. First, Russian forces are still strong and will win a hard fought war. Another thing is that they are fragile. If defeated, Russia may strike at NATO or resort to chemical or even nuclear weapons to avoid defeat.