From Being Liberal (Threads):
“ Early on in Russia’s war against Ukraine, “pessimists noted that time favored Russia, the larger and richer of the two countries, and the one whose military had more experience with slow, grinding wars,” But last year, “tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of Russians were killed or wounded, and whole mechanized divisions were lost, in exchange for territory slightly larger than...
“At that rate, Russia will control all of Ukraine in about 118 years. Keep that figure in mind when you hear President Donald Trump or Vice President J. D. Vance declare … that Ukraine is ‘not winning’ the war and that it is in ‘a very bad position.’”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/ukraine-russia-war-position/681916/
