John Gault

The Russo-Ukrainian War: 2014–???? Why did it start? Why does it continue? How may it end?

The Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014 and expanded into a full-scale invasion in February 2022. This review explains its causes, persistence, and most likely outcome, giving greater weight to causation theories that generated specific prior warnings. The principal cause is the co...

Russo-Ukrainian War: 2014–???? Why did it start? Why does it continue? How may it end?

The Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014 and expanded into a full-scale invasion in February 2022. This article explains both transitions, the continuation of combat despite immense costs to Russia and Ukraine, and the war's most likely outcome. It reconstructs the conflict from the...