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minus-square@SheeEttin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish73•2 years agoThat’s not strictly true. On the short end, there was the six-day war. On the long end, there was the hundred years’ war. Putin was clearly aiming for the short option, but then I suppose most belligerents usually are.
minus-square@justastranger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink26•2 years agoI’d actually love to see a graph that shows the distribution of lengths of various wars
minus-square@SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink24•2 years agoDude took the low end and said “fuck that we’ll do it twice as fast.” The good news is I don’t think Russia can continue to sustain these kind of losses for 199 more years.
minus-square@threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish24•2 years agoThe Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted less than an hour
minus-square@5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink3•2 years ago‘Gunboat diplomacy’ isn’t very diplomatic.
That’s not strictly true. On the short end, there was the six-day war. On the long end, there was the hundred years’ war.
Putin was clearly aiming for the short option, but then I suppose most belligerents usually are.
I’d actually love to see a graph that shows the distribution of lengths of various wars
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Dude took the low end and said “fuck that we’ll do it twice as fast.”
The good news is I don’t think Russia can continue to sustain these kind of losses for 199 more years.
Neither can Ukraine…
The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted less than an hour
‘Gunboat diplomacy’ isn’t very diplomatic.