Commentary: Putin needs a way to ‘save face’ and end Ukraine war

”, said United States President Joe Biden on Monday , adding that he was “trying to figure out what we do about that”.

Presumably, Biden’s statement reflects concern about the risks from an embarrassed Putin. To limit those risks, is there a way Putin can save face, even if he orders an end to his invasionPutin has already been forced to pull back from his aims of capturing Kyiv, installing a government subservient to Moscow and ending the concept of Ukraine as an entity separate from Russia.

Now it appears that Putin’s immediate goals are reduced to claiming an enlarged territory for the vassal territories in Luhansk and Donetsk, securing a land bridge from Crimea and perhaps taking all the Ukrainian seacoast, including the important port of Odesa. He could claim to have successfully “rescued” most Russian speakers from the “Nazi” Ukrainian regime. And control of the Sea of Azov by Russia has been achievedDeclaring a Russian ceasefire might even work in Putin’s favour. A ceasefire could divide Ukraine’s Western backers along the line of those who want to “give peace a chance” and those who want to continue funding Ukrainian efforts to recover lost territory.

“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” Sun tzu.

No more appeasement.

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