Wars are unpredictable affairs. Experts can evaluate troop strength and weaponry. But morale and courage do not lend themselves to quantifiable analysis. Nor does leadership. No one can predict when a former KGB agent will become psychotic, or when a former comedienne will mutate from a Charlie Chaplin to a Winston Churchill.
But allowing for the uncertainty, it now appears likely that Russia will lose its war against Ukraine.
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