Russia says peace in Ukraine will be ‘on our terms’ – but what can the West accept and at what cost?
- Written by Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato

The recent assertion by Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s security council (and former president), that the invasion of Ukraine will “achieve all its goals” and that peace will be “on our terms” raises an obvious question: what are those terms?
History suggests the answer may be a hard one. Modern...