abstract: As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds into its fourth year, the prospect of a meaningful peace deal remains distant—not because negotiations haven’t been proposed, but because Russia’s ongoing atrocities, territorial ambitions, and refusal to face real consequences make genuine compromise impossible. Instead of a mutually hurting stalemate, we are witnessing an increasingly one-sided war of attrition, where Kyiv is pressured to concede and Moscow is emboldened to wait. In this context, the t
journal: GEOpolitics