Wednesday, June 25, 2025

At the NATO summit this week, there will be heated debates about all that the alliance has not accomplished since the start of the war in Ukraine. Ukrainians are still suffering. Russia is still taking territory. China, Iran and North Korea are still abetting the Russian war effort. The Russian economy is still muddling through; there is no visible antiwar movement in Russia. But Russia has also been effectively stopped in Ukraine, and Europe can live without Russia, as can the United States. The West can afford to lose Russia, nice as it would be to have a peaceful Russia alongside it. Russia’s loss of the West, by contrast, is a grievous setback that could take generations to undo.

 

    

Putin Has Lost Something Worse Than a War


Mr. Kimmage is a historian of the Cold War and an expert on U.S.-Russian relations.

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