The Geopolitical Opportunity of Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive

August 15, 2024

Soil is the single most important leverage that Ukraine can amass, more valuable than sanctions relief or other economic incentives to Russia. The West’s aim should therefore be to help Zelenksy hold Russian soil as a way of bringing the war to an end as quickly as possible and on the best possible terms to Ukraine.


Foreign Policy

Dr. A. Wess Mitchell is co-founder and principal at The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition.