Tag: Clausewicz

Putin’s Peacemaking in Ukraine is Continuation of His War by Other Means, Portnikov Suggests

October 6, 2015

Staunton, October 4 Clausewicz famously observed that “war is the continuation of politics by other means;” but in the case of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has inverted that definition and is seeking to make peacemaking into another means for continuing the policies behind his war there, according to Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov. The chief results of […]