Ukraine: The Decimation Point by Amir Taheri

Ukraine: The Decimation Point
by Amir Taheri • December 3, 2023 at 4:00 am
[B]oth Russia and Ukraine have passed what military theoreticians call the "decimation point" when you see that you have lost at least 10% of your fighting manpower.
In the West, public opinion saw the war as a means of keeping the Russian giant in chains, while anti-West forces admired Putin for challenging the American big bad wolf.


Pictured: Ukrainian soldiers from a drone-hunting team stand next to an anti-aircraft gun in the outskirts of Kyiv, on November 30, 2023. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)
Thirsting for a bit of good news in these bad times of war, Ukraine's media headlined what it saw as a victory: The return to Kiev of a haul of artefacts from Crimea that had been on exhibit in European cities before Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014.

The return came after a ten-year legal battle in which Russia claimed that it should receive the artefacts because they were made before the 1950s when the then Soviet ruler Nikita Khrushchev "handed Crimea over to Ukraine." Ukraine counter-argued that the artefacts were loaned to a Dutch museum before Russian President Vladimir Putin's troops annexed Crimea.

Well, in every war even the tiniest bit of good news could help divert attention, even momentarily, from bigger bad news.

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