A sea change does seem to have taken place, from my perspective for the better Reading Melissa Lawford’s excellent analysis in the Sunday Telegraph, “Putin can’t afford peace — Russia’s economy is hooked on war,” I had a queasy sense of recognition. Lawford claims that Vladimir Putin has no real desire for a peace deal in Ukraine, because both his personal political power and his country’s militarized economy depend on the conflict. She quotes an IMF former chief economist as saying: “He’s