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Except it's not akin to that at all. Ukraine isn't just letting Russia attack them - they're fighting back.
The reason your analogy doesn't work is that the strategy is based on being able to hurt the other guy. You can't knock him out...but you're not expecting him to knock himself out (that's silly). Instead, you're hurting him and hurting him and punching him and damaging him constantly. You can't physically knock him out or force him out of the ring, but you can demonstrate that he'll never knock you out either and that he'll never stop being hurt and damaged. And since he can leave the ring and you can't, he knows that you'll keep hurting and damaging him for as long as you have any resources - but he doesn't have to sit there and take it for no benefit.
Yep. His analogy indicates he doesn't grasp the big picture. If he's expecting a WWII-style "devastate the enemy until they can't fight anymore" situation, like both Germany and Japan, that's not gonna happen. It's more like WWI, where one combatant (actually, more than one, but Russia quitting to have their revolution isn't relevant here) simply says "I've had enough". In the 19-teens, infrastructure largely was untouchable, so everyone's factories were pretty much intact. It was casualties and the economy that ended it.
If you want an analogy, it's like a defendant in a lawsuit drowning the plaintiff in paper, driving up their legal expenses and making sure it will be 7-8 years and millions of dollars in legal fees before they ever see a dime of recovery, in hopes that they'll drop the lawsuit or settle for a pittance. A strategy that happens all the time.
A bit closer, yes. Coincidentally, I just read about an HOA in Colorado that has had to file for bankruptcy because their owners were suing them, and suing them, and suing them...they claimed their legal expenses were getting too onerous. Apparently there was some shenanigans about the board, but that's tangential.
You keep at it until they give up because it isn't worth it to them to continue.
