MAD Once Described the Nuclear Impasse; in Ukraine, It’s Gone Back to Its Original Meaning

Russian President Vladimir Putin makes an address on the conflict with Ukraine, in Moscow on Sept. 21, 2022, in this still image from video. Russian Presidential Press Service/Kremlin via Reuters

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Ukraine’s two largest Western backers, the United States and the United Kingdom, have so far committed $15.8 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively, in security assistance to Kyiv, and one of Liz Truss’s first announcements as prime minister was that the UK would match that in 2023, so she isn’t expecting the war to end anytime soon.