Why the Ukraine war may be heading for a ceasefire

After a year of brutal fighting, in which

thousands of lives have been lost,

civilian infrastructure has been destroyed and untold damage caused, the war has reached a stalemate. Neither side will countenance a negotiated settlement. On the battlefield, battered armies contest small strips of territory, at a terrible cost. The threat of nuclear escalation hangs in the air.

This isn’t Ukraine today; it’s the Korean peninsula in 1951.