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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Russia will lose the will to fight and keep their occupied areas before Ukraine loses the will to fight to liberate those areas. It's pre-2014, or war as far as Ukrainian leadership is concerned.
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That hasn't really been the trajectory that wars take though, in the last 70-80 years at least. Most inter-state wars are quite short, lasting a few months. Of the ones that extend longer than year, the average length is something like 10 years because in those situations, neither side is really capable of inflicting a decisive victory on the other (which seems to be the case with this war). So they just keep fighting.
So what you say may be true in the end, but it's probably going to take a very long time for that to happen. And then you have to consider whether the US is willing to continue to provide support at the current level indefinitely. If the Democrats stay in power, that'll likely happen. But if Trump or Desantis gets into office?