Writing as perceptively as always, this time in the Atlantic blog, Anne Applebaum yesterday suggests that the goal of the war in Ukraine, now that the Russian military machine of destruction is stalled, must be “victory.” For her, the end game must not include a truce, “or a muddle, or a decision to maintain some kind of Ukrainian resistance over the next decade, or a vow to ‘bleed Russia dry,’ or anything else that will prolong the fighting and the instability.”