Avoiding a Forever War in Ukraine

Yet another Prime Minister swap in the UK reminds of upcoming elections in Britain and the US – the two biggest military donors to Ukraine. According to Luke Cooper, author and senior research fellow at the LSE Ideas, the idea of a ‘long war’ in Ukraine risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Adjustment of economic policy towards a war economy is needed to support the social needs of Ukrainians as Russia’s attacks on critical infrastructure intensifies and local production continues to shrink.The war is an opportunity for the furthering of the grassroots democracy movement borne out of the Maidan revolution, as different events have been in the face of authoritarian protectionism in Central and Eastern Europe.