Is the War in Ukraine Finally Coming to an End?

Is this the end of the war in Ukraine? Sure. This can be whatever we spin it to be. It will be a messy eternally-frozen conflict one way or another. On February 12, we saw a declaration from Washington to the effect that Ukrainian territory will be handed over to Russia and Ukraine will not be joining NATO–ever. There will be some banal “peacekeeping” force in the benign Western European style (Bosnians will tragically remember this), and that’s about it. Trump and Putin have agreed to start the peace process immediately.…