This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Germanicus, Michael Vlegos, about attrition.

Attrician as a battlefield tactic introduced in the 19th century by Ulysses Grant in the siege of Petersburg and Richmond

used again in the first war, the great war in Europe, attrition, and how that attrition strategy looks to be the success

for the Russian forces assaulting the Ukrainian forces. Here's Michael Lejos, Germanicus, explaining attrition in the 21st century.

Yes, and the major problem here is not simply that they have the ability to do that and in fact have been doing it in a highly effective way.

But the US does not have the analytic talent or capability to identify that the attrition

strategy is being directed against Ukraine and Ukraine has

willingly been going along with it.

And the result is the

the impending coming apart of the Ukrainian army and I don't see the situation really hanging on

too much longer.

Much more of this analysis later.