The lost rule: Don't get into a war if you can't define how it ends

How Does It End? Fissures Emerge Over What Constitutes Victory in Ukraine

In recent days, presidents and prime ministers as well as the Democratic and Republican Party leaders in the United States have called for victory in Ukraine. But just beneath the surface are real divisions about what that would look like — and whether “victory” has the same definition in the United States, in Europe and, perhaps most importantly, in Ukraine.