Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel reminds us: “A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.” Yet one year on from when Vladimir Putin shattered the longest sustained period of peace since 1945, all we know for sure is that he has doomed us to more death and destruction before there will be dialogue. Even the deeply deluded cannot deny that doubling down on a grave error can only compound the catastrophe. The “special military operation” that would mop up Ukraine in days now enters its second year. Moscow now controls 17pc of Ukraine’s territory, but has...