SYMBOLISM, MILITARY TACTICS, AND STRATEGY In the wake of Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine, Putin suspended Russia’s participation in the New START nuclear agreement with the US. “He calculates that Russia’s immense resources will grind down Ukrainian resistance eventually, and presumably continues to hope that NATO will eventually tire of the conflict and pressure Ukraine to make concessions.” Putin “is committed to continuing the fighting because ending the war without a victory is riskier to him politically than continuing,” says Stone.
Randall Stone, a political science professor and the director of Rochester’s Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, predicts the war will last at least another year.
“But we’re still in the informational stage of war, both sides are still trying new strategies.” For peace negotiations to start, “both sides must know, more or less, how the war would end for them.” And that could take from a year to a decade, he adds. “If Putin left the stage, things could change quickly,” he says. So, what is happening in Ukraine now? And when will the war end? Not soon, according to Goemans, an expert on how international conflicts begin and end. Watson Center for Conflict and Cooperation, called the visit “a loud and clear signal to Putin, and to the rest of the West, that the US is in it for the long haul.” Hein Goemans, a professor of political science at the University of Rochester and the director of the Peter D. On February 21, 2023, President Joe Biden marked the anniversary with a surprise visit to Ukraine. In the past year, several hundred thousand soldiers have been killed on both sides, and the conflict has created Europe’s largest refugee crisis since the Second World War. University of Rochester political scientists discuss military developments, the efficacy of sanctions, and how to end the war.Ī year ago, on February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine, marking a major escalation in a long-smoldering armed conflict that began in 2014 with Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
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