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Technically you’re correct and I think he should have mentioned this. Would have been interested to see what kind of arguments he’d bring forth…

As I said in another comment though, making war costly is basically just waging war. Maybe it will become too costly in one month, maybe one year, maybe five. Maybe Russia will lob a couple of tactical nukes in the direction of Ukraine. Maybe China and India or India and Pakistan get into a hot war because Russia is distracted.

Exhaustion is not a precise strategy and it’s not a short-term or even mid-term strategy when one looks at the Soviet-Afghan war or the Vietnam war. Years of death and destruction can hardly be called a strategy.