Jonah Goldberg: The Russia-Ukraine war is not the result of a failure of dialogue

It’s an article of various faiths — both secular and religious — that misunderstanding is the cause of conflict.

This sort of insight is generally true for individuals, so it’s often considered equally true of nations. Hence vast amounts of antiwar activism and state-level diplomacy rest on the assumption that nations are like people and if we can just get adversaries to talk to each other, and thereby to understand each other’s perspective, the bloodshed will end or