As Russia battles economic pain, the West debates how to end the war.

Three months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia is struggling to stave off a return to Soviet-era scarcity, and the United States and its allies are debating how to bring this war to an end.

The economic cost of the war, which forced Russia’s central bank to slash interest rates again on Thursday, could eventually alter President Vladimir V. Putin’s calculus, though so far he has shown no interest in a negotiated end to the war.

That has not stopped presidents and prime ministers, as well as the Democratic and Republican Party leaders in the United States, from weighing in with ideas for how, if not to win the war, to at least wind it down.

At the heart of the discourse lies a fundamental question about whether the three-decade-long project to integrate Russia into the international order has now ended.

After months of unity in response to the Russian invasion, divisions are emerging about the endgame. Read more

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