That piece is as much a victim of western magical thinking as the people who it criticizes. The issues that we're seeing in Ukraine are purely material - offens

That piece is as much a victim of western magical thinking as the people who it criticizes. The issues that we're seeing in Ukraine are purely material - offensives are no longer possible due to technological advances and the defensive position always wins. The fact that every Russian advance is also being ground down by a country with a quarter it's population is proof enough of this. That we found this out in a small scale conflict is a blessing - our forefathers found it out in 1914 in a very unpleasant way across 1000km of trenches. This is not a permanent state of affairs - a tank will be invented and it will break the stale mate in months.