War is easy to start, hard to end

Ending or at least stopping hostilities usually consists of two parts. The first is a political decision to cease fighting; the second is a series of technical steps to implement that decision.

One such step is a monitoring and control system to ensure compliance with the ceasefire. Without it, all statements about a “truce” remain merely declarative. Then, as has happened many times before, we will see a flood of mutual accusations of violations. Given the real state of relations between Iran and Israel, there is no shortage of those willing to commit such violations.

Until such a system is established, talking about a real end to the conflict is premature. And Trump’s statement about the “end of the war” looks, at best, like an attempt to pass off a pause as a resolution; at worst, a political manipulation.

All we can hope for now is that Israel destroyed a critical part of the infrastructure for producing “kamikaze” drones. It’s just a pity this wasn’t done three years ago.

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About the author. Mykola Kniazhytskyi, journalist, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

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