2025-12-02
8 分钟The Economist Hi there, it's Jason Palmer here,
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1,372 days into what was meant to be a three-day war is peace finally in sight for Ukraine.
Who knows?
A flurry of amateurish diplomacy between America and Russia in the past week has yielded much sound and some fury,
notably from Europeans irate at being left on the sidelines of another set of peace talks,
but for now there is little in the way of a truce.
Ukraine has probably done well to sidestep the dodgy deal originally cooked up between the Kremlin and the White House.
Still, one day and hopefully soon,
an agreement to end the war that both Ukraine and Russia can accept will be found.
That will be a moment of intense relief, yet at the same time,
for Ukraine's European neighbours, it will have some awkward consequences.
War has galvanised the continent.
When war ends, Watch out for the effects of the great de-galvanisation.
Nearly four years of fighting on its doorstep have given Europe,
often a fractious continent, the closest thing to national unity it has ever known.
The visceral reaction to Russia's butchery on the battlefield sent a shockwave of shared purpose across the continent,