Biden may have to shift to a plan B, but can he do it after insisting the freedom of the global world order is at stake?

By Branko Marcetic

Before the summer, we had the broad outline of what the endgame of the war in Ukraine would look like: Kyiv would train and build up its forces, launch a summer offensive, reclaim as much territory as it could, and finally enter peace talks with the strongest negotiating hand possible and bring the war to a close.