Ilya Ponomarev

Ukraine: Present Perils and Future Prospects | Global Conference 2024

Gideon Rose, Dmitri Alperovitch, Bill Browder, Evelyn Farkas, Ilya Ponomarev, Liev Schreiber

Experts analyze a grinding land stalemate in Ukraine's war against Russia, where rapid mobilization and insufficient Western training cycles struggle against Russia's fully reoriented war economy and massive defense spending. The panel debates the strategic necessity of confiscating frozen Russian assets, long-range strikes on domestic infrastructure, and an oil embargo to break Russian resolve, while warning that a potential U.S. election victory for Donald Trump could severely cut aid and jeopardize NATO security. With credible peace negotiations deemed impossible under Vladimir Putin's current leadership, the outlook remains divided between a prolonged existential deadlock and a future resolution driven by internal Russian resistance or a fundamental shift in Western strategic posture.