The Irish Times view on the war in Ukraine: seeking a way forward

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In his book On War, published in the 1830s Carl von Clausewitz wrote: “War is simply the continuation of political discourse with other means”. The fundamental point he made about the primacy of political objectives over military means is borne out by the war in Ukraine, despite the war’s very own dynamics. A current stocktake must cover its deep geopolitical setting for both Russia and Ukraine, including the regional and worldwide ripple effects now coming into the foreground of international political and military efforts to see it resolved. Last weekend’s aborted military rebellion by the Wagner chief’s Yevgeny Prigozhin exposed...