Everything is tied to the long term, and he decides who will win. Whoever is more effective will win.
Effectiveness is not about emotions. Not about fairness. And not even about human traits. And certainly not about virtues. Because war is quite the opposite of human and virtues.
They hit a city with a missile, the annual budget of which is less than the cost of the missile. The attack on Kyiv cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
What was the goal set by the Russians? To intimidate. Fear and panic.
Did they achieve this? No. Effectiveness is close to zero.
But this is not the main goal. The main goal is to provoke us into linear responses. To spend expensive and scarce means and resources on what does not yield truly effective results.
Many now want a linear response. Emotions.
What is the goal? To intimidate? Whom, the Russians? For what? Even if we intimidate a couple of hundred thousand Russians. What will it affect? Will they fear us more than Putin?
No.
They are trying to provoke us into linear responses. But in this lies our inevitable defeat.
Expenditure 1:1. We cannot match. They have more resources.
After this, what? Losses on the battlefield during linear actions? We cannot do this.
This is our defeat. Inevitable.
Our task is to ensure that for every fallen Ukrainian, as many invaders are destroyed as possible. Then it is effective. The more, the higher the effectiveness.
Our task is to ensure that for every dollar spent on drones/missiles, the damage to the Russians is maximized.
Only this way does it work. There is no other way.
I advocate that none of our missiles, none of our drones hit civilian infrastructure. (Headquarters of “Rubicon” are not considered civilian). Because that is a mistake and what doesn’t reach important targets.
Let oil depots and defense enterprises burn. Let the Russians rejoice while their economy burns.
We will rejoice later.
Effectiveness. Only this matters. Emotions are harmful.
Hold the line.
Photo: Gensh
