gilbertdoctorow  October 1, 2023 READ

It may be premature to speak of the end of the Ukraine war coming thanks to Western governments withdrawing support from the corrupt, autocratic regime in Kiev, so that its military collapses in the space of weeks. However, two key political developments yesterday, two exercises in representative democracy by which majority views in the broad electorate took control of the number one foreign affairs issue, suggest that the end of the ignorant, cynical and self-destructive policies crafted by our governing elites may be coming sooner than many of us had dared to hope.