We were hoist by our own autocorrect in an analysis of the prospects of an end to the conflict in Ukraine. It could have been the fault of a dictation machine, I suppose, but either way, the intervention was far from helpful.
“Europe’s main concerns are protecting Ukraine and developing the military capacity to scare Putin away from his oft-spoken desire to force former Soviet-sphere nations in Eastern Europe back into Russia’s portfolio,” we said. “That’s much harder to focus on if, as Putin and Trump want, diplomatic and poetical effort is diverted into quibbles over fake ceasefires rather than winning the war against Russia.”
