It would take the Russians years and 2 million more casualties to take they area Putin demands Ukraine to give up.
“It would take the Russians years and 2 million more casualties to take they area Putin demands Ukraine to give up.”
That assumes a purely linear progression.
War doesn’t work that way.
On D-Day +7 allied forces were still within a mile of the beach. In France.
A little over a year later they were in Berlin...hardly a linear progression.
Losing armies collapse. Every time.