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Unraveling 36: Winter War

Jocko Unraveling

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The Ukrainians Willingness to Take Casualties

I was scared about that for a while for the Ukrainians. It looked like what the Ukrainians were doing was we're going to fight pitched battles against pitched conventional battles against the Russians. But, but even there, they just kind of gave up the land rather than fight over it. That did lead me to believe that they were highly willing to take casualties. They took 10, 15,000 casualties down in Herson doing what was essentially a diversionary maneuver so that they could open up the Northeast and attack up there. As long as we're able to keep the money flowing, that could continue more or less indefinitely.

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