10-12-2023, 08:17 PM
(10-12-2023, 03:51 PM)Hurlburt88 Wrote: I may becoming cynical . . . I feel like this war has already been "won", but the combatants don't realize it and haven't figured out how to stop fighting.
The point of the war was perhaps never really territorial acquisition. If you follow the saying that all politics is local, the war may have been an effort to retrench and tighten grip on domestic power in Russia.