North Korean losses point to global nature of Ukraine war

So many counties are now either directly or indirectly involved in the war that even “the most dogged of isolationists would have a hard time selling [it] as a ’regional conflict,’” wrote Politico in a piece headlined “World War III is already underway.” Both Kyiv and Moscow are increasingly framing the war in global terms: Ukraine says it is fighting for “democracy,” while Russia rails against the “collective West.” By the same token, however, Ukraine’s backers are accountable to public opinion at home. Americans are now evenly split on whether the US has a responsibility to help Ukraine, according to the Pew Research Center, and the idea of Ukraine ceding territory “appears to have gone from being taboo to lodestar,” Politico wrote.