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Ukraine Update: Russia is not winning the war (www.dailykos.com)
submitted 1 year ago by doo to c/[email protected]
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If anything, russia is showing clear signs of sunk-cost fallacy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Given that every Ukrainian knows that there is no situation in which surrendering to Russia is preferable to fighting to the death, any Russian path to victory would be long and tortuous, and ending in a wasteland. “Victory” becomes a mirage.