When he sent his armies across the border into Ukraine, he expected the “special military operation” to be quick and decisive. It was an army waging war with obsolete military technology, making it vulnerable to Javelins. The western military alliance is now very different from the one that meekly accepted Russian occupation of parts of Ukraine in 2014. Like the war between Athens and Sparta during the classical age, the war in Ukraine will have civilizational bearings on all of us. The situation is settling into a prolonged war of attrition that will tax the industrial capacity of both Russia and the western alliance to keep the fighting raging at the past year’s intensity.

Source: Philippine Star February 25, 2023 06:09 UTC