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🧵 In my keynote at #CSD2023 on Ukraine’s Path to Victory, I asked: how to end this war?
My answer in short: the faster Putin understands he has made a mistake, he will not reach his objectives and won’t be able to break Ukrainians, the sooner this war ends. 1/
My answer in short: the faster Putin understands he has made a mistake, he will not reach his objectives and won’t be able to break Ukrainians, the sooner this war ends. 1/
Longer answer: for victory there are conditions and policies we need to pursue.
To begin with, as President @ZelenskyyUa says, freedom must be armed better than tyranny.
Arms, ammunition, training – they all must continue at a scale sufficient for Ukraine to win the war. 2/
To begin with, as President @ZelenskyyUa says, freedom must be armed better than tyranny.
Arms, ammunition, training – they all must continue at a scale sufficient for Ukraine to win the war. 2/
However, it’s not only battlefield success that will decide the outcome of the war.
We must show the Kremlin it cannot outlast Ukraine and the free world economically.
So, Ukraine’s victory also depends on our ability to dry up the Kremlin’s income to finance aggression. 3/
We must show the Kremlin it cannot outlast Ukraine and the free world economically.
So, Ukraine’s victory also depends on our ability to dry up the Kremlin’s income to finance aggression. 3/
