Can Ukraine win?

Simon Tisdall overlooks the elephant in the room: there is no conceivable amount of aid that we can send to Ukraine that will win this war for them; all we can do is stop them from losing (“The moment has arrived: Biden must give Ukraine all it needs to win”, World Affairs Commentary, last week).

There are only two ways for Ukraine to win. The first is for

Vladimir Putin to lose power somehow, and to hope his successor will be more moderate towards Ukraine. The other is to wholeheartedly embrace Ukraine as part of Nato and join in the offensive (had we done this before the war, Russia would not have dared to attack). But the west has become too fat and lazy to fight a war of principle like that.

Simon Prutton

Winchester