re: Russia prolonging Ukraine war

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Russia prolonging Ukraine war
To drain American resources, has to be the only reason this war still going on

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The war is still going on because Russia badly miscalculated the result. Putin was led to anticipated a quick Ukrainian collapse after a shock-and-awe blitzkrieg. Russian analysts underestimated Ukrainian capacity and resolve in Feb/March 2022, and overestimated themselves in the same arena (as did the CIA and MI6).

Without air superiority, battlelines are a WWI style stagnant quagmire. With the US and UK scuttling peacetalks, the war drags on pointlessly. Excepting the latter, this war would have ended in April 2022, two years ago.