Thanks to robots, Ukraine is now talking about winning, not just surviving
defenseone.comI've been hearing this kind of talk for at least four years now. This is a war of attrition. The solution will be some compromise that neither side really wants.
Russia was attrited and gave up in Afghanistan in 1989, Germany was attrited and collapsed on the Eastern Front in 1944, USA was attrited and gave up in Vietnam, etc.
The point is that attrition takes a long time and a lot of effort. It doesn't happen overnight, as the media has been claiming about this war for years now.
Afghanistan was fought by the USSR rather than just Russia. Quite a few Ukrainian soldiers ended up there ironically.
"The point is" … that? I thought your point would have something to do with a necessity for compromise. "War of attrition" → "compromise".
I don't see that, AFAICT few wars of attrition lead to a compromise.
And, BTW, the newspapers I read didn't write "overnight". Did yours — really?