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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] I'm hardly about to say "you're mistaken, Mr. Helfner", and there is a lot of history supporting your position. But now that it appears this conflict is becoming a war of attrition, there is no way that Ukraine can win. Russia just plain has "more of everything" needed to wage war. Even if they have been shown to be "The Three Stooges" on the battlefield, they just plain have more "Stooges" to throw into the fight. Possibly I noted this earlier, but I had a History teacher in Secondary School (a private Boarding School) who fought (and was wounded) in the WWII Italian campaign. He once remarked in class that the only reason "we" won, is that we simply had "more of everything". If war was some kind of game with rules and each side started out with the same men and munitions, the Germans would have "whupped us big time". But I can recall a line of script and a scene from one WWII movie or the other (I think it was "Battle of the Bulge") which showed the Germans capturing an American unit and the commander holding a parcel containing a birthday cake. He remarked to a subordinate "if they can ship birthday cake over here, what chance have we got?" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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