According to Paul Poast, a professor of foreign policy and war at the University of Chicago, there are now five ways that the aggression in Ukraine can end. They are:
- A disastrous quagmire or retreat for Russia
- Violent regime change in Kyiv
- The full conquest of Ukraine
- The beginning of a new Russian empire
- Chaotic stumble into something like World War III
Poast discusses these five scenarios in depth,
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