• rainwall@piefed.social
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    9 days ago

    Maybe Russia has won every defensive war of attrition, but certainly not every war its embarked on.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      I don’t know how attritional the crimean war was, but it was certainly a defensive war Russia lost.

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      9 days ago

      I think ‘defensive’ makes it true. Do we have any exceptions historians of lemmy?