Russia will not give up on its war aims in Ukraine and is able to sustain a long war of attrition, some leading analysts say.
That means NATO allies must clearly define their own endgame for the hostilities and be prepared for the domestic cost of supporting a lengthy conflict in Eastern Europe.
Experts on NATO and the Ukraine war from major think tanks as well as from the embassies of Finland and Sweden voiced those conclusions at a public forum in Washington on April 20.
‘Relitigate’ End of Cold War
Russia’s aim for the war in Ukraine is, at a minimum, to destabilize Ukraine and force its dependence on Russia. More likely, according to Angela Stent, a nonresident senior fellow and co-chair of the Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs at Brookings, the goal is to effectively reassemble the old Soviet empire….