Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Huge Mistake - Attritional Wars, Complete Exhaustion | Winter's Challenges - Ukraine Map Update" video.

@festekj I don't see it that way. But I agree that some western think-tankers see it that way. We've gotta knock some of these zero-sum think-tanker types off their pedestals. They're not our oracles. They're our doom.
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@Hereford1642 It's a prime piece of real estate. Permaculture has come a long way, too. Greenhouses in the snow, baby!
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@kyalokamina6497 Both sides learn every day. Nature of the beast. The big difference that I see, is there's part of the world that sees industry as its present and future, and another part of the world that's abandoning industry and manufacture. This can end in only one way, the same as Hitler's situation was similarly hopeless. Too much industrial might aligned against it.
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@harryflashman4542 I think there are a lot of reasons for the U.S. establishment to push the conflict. You suggest a few, but I don't think you scratched the surface of the corrupt ties between U.S. and Ukrainian oligarchs
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Meh. I don't see attritional warfare as a doctrine. I see a clear intention of winning, and an understanding that attrition is always a part of it. They made and they continue to make the calculation based on both sides' ability to fight. They are passive and "cowardly" when they can't afford to make a fight of it. They make the "affordability" calculation for both sides before they take the next step, especially when they switch to the offensive, and they don't make moves that hurt them more than they hurt the opponent. I think they have more manufacturing capacity than the West, at present, and for the foreseeable. The West is on the brink of financial and industrial collapse. The East and the Global South are on the cusp of a golden age of economic prosperity. I just wish we could stop fighting each other, and learn from our mistakes in previous industrial revolutions. Clean, safe, atomic power - the one thing the West doesn't want to share - seems like a very logical strategy. Fossil fuels are the obvious intermediate step, and for rural areas, should probably stay with us, forever. In congested metropolitan areas, not so much. Before the federal government stuck its nose in, there were a lot of for-profit light rail systems competing with each other in cities around the world.
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