—”Yet, Russia and Putin keep on fighting.”
A common event called escalation of commitment; to failure.
The decision you face now is crucial. Once large numbers of _______troops are committed to direct combat, they will begin to take heavy casualties in a war they are ill equipped to fight in a noncooperative if not downright hostile countryside. Once we suffer large casualties, we will have started a well-nigh irreversible process. Our involvement will be so great that we cannot—without national humiliation—stop short of achieving our complete objectives. Of the two possibilities, I think humiliation would be more likely than the achievement of our objectives—even after we have paid terrible costs.
“Memo from George Ball to President Johnson. A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam”.. (1995).
Also prominent is the old saying:
First-class leaders want first-class help.
Seconed-class leaders want third-class help.
Nothing new.
Coming soon, How Putin Lost Russia, a case study.
putin must need prigozhin very badly to put up with his near constant criticism of putin’s military
I guessed ahead that this referred to the US in Vietnam. (an easy guess?) George Ball was on the ball.