Wars are not won by retreats. But it is also possible to win the battle and lose the war.
The two military axioms — the first from Winston Churchill after the retreat from Dunkirk, and the second from more than 2,000 years ago when the Greek king Pyrrhus strode into the Roman Empire, triumphant but unable to secure the territory he wanted because of heavy losses suffered in the campaign to get there — both resonate as Russia grinds its way to battlefield advances in eastern Ukraine.
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