Newsweek. Schar Professor Mark Katz seeks to explain Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent call for an end to the war in Ukraine.

Mark Katz offers two theories to explain why Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly called for an end to what, in a departure from past practice, he referred to as the “war” in Ukraine. Katz suggests that Putin might recognize the costs of the war and genuinely want to end it; he may also want to incentivize Western governments to stop supporting Ukraine at current levels.

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