What is failure? What is victory? And who defines it? Just before the NATO Summit in Madrid at the end of June, a debate has erupted over the goals that could or should be achieved in Ukraine. Superficially, the divisions are over semantics, but what a “win” looks like depends on whether one thinks the conflict is only about Ukraine, or about Russian aggression. What is failure? What is victory? And who defines it? Just before the NATO Summit in Madrid at the end of June, a debate has erupted over the goals that could or should be achieved in Ukraine. Superficially, the divisions are over semantics, but what a “win” looks like depends on whether one thinks the conflict is only about Ukraine, or about Russian aggression.