Re:Russian troops are proving that cell phones in war zones ...
by bell-cot on Saturday May 14, 2022 @06:37AM
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"When things are bad, keep fighting and don't give up" is a pretty common and often extremely useful military mindset.
From the $billions that the war is costing the west, to millions of Ukrainian refugees, to developing grim shortages of many things which Russia and Ukraine were major exporters of, to surging inflation & other economic effects, to the short attention spans of western news/hype cycles, to regular elections which most pro-Ukraine western leaders are facing in the next year or so...
"Win via attrition" is probably too optimistic a phrase. But it would be pretty realistic for Russia to say "our least-bad option is to keep fighting, because our enemies' situations will deteriorate faster than our own".
From the $billions that the war is costing the west, to millions of Ukrainian refugees, to developing grim shortages of many things which Russia and Ukraine were major exporters of, to surging inflation & other economic effects, to the short attention spans of western news/hype cycles, to regular elections which most pro-Ukraine western leaders are facing in the next year or so...
"Win via attrition" is probably too optimistic a phrase. But it would be pretty realistic for Russia to say "our least-bad option is to keep fighting, because our enemies' situations will deteriorate faster than our own".