Jens Stoltenberg says the costs of war are high but the price of letting Moscow win is even greater.
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Like night follows day, we're hearing from NATO that this war may take years. Here comes the commitment to ensure Russia do not achieve their goals...
... or at least NATO do achieve theirs - Russia unable to cement its position alongside a heavily impacted economy, military and political regime.
Unless Russia can get a large offensive moving, most people even with a wee bit of of experience and/or knowledge of history will foresee how it'll likely pan out.
The temperature will drop around late October and November to below freezing, the rain will not relent and the Russian conscripts and their moral will suffer.
Obviously it won't be particularly nice for the UA either, but (a big but) I suspect they'll hold. This war will bog down and it'll allow the Ukrainians to rearm.
Unless there's a drastic change, I can't see this war being finished until late 2023 or even 2024, which will end up in a political compromise.