The invasion of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin believed he could conclude quickly continues, with no rapid outcome on the horizon.
This makes me think of another conflict, the First World War, with its Western Front and its trench warfare which bogged down the troops of both camps for years in nameless butchery – which is also recounted in the novel. very well known period In the west, nothing is newby Erich Maria Note.
However, in the case that concerns us, the time of the trenches is over and the theater of operations in Ukraine is characterized by an urban guerrilla tactic putting in check the Russian Armed Forces, which, even if they possess superior weaponry, cannot end the confrontation with total victory — the advantage going to the defenders […].
What was called “the Great War” gave rise to innovations such as tanks and the first combat aircraft, and even the use of chemical weapons, due to the stagnation of the front typical of any trench warfare. . Unfortunately, in Ukraine today, this type of new weaponry which can resolve the conflict remains to be discovered, and a very long war of attrition which will make many say for a long time “In the east, nothing new” is predictable.
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