Be Very Afraid of a Defeated Ukraine

Our soldiers die. And they also fight, rush forward, and survive. To exhale . . . and then to hear from a passer-by: “When will you finally drive the Russians away, boys?” To read that a Harvard professor divided the distance to Sevastopol by the distance liberated by Ukrainians during a day chosen at random, and decided it would take 16 years to liberate Crimea. 

War isn’t about linear distances, military people say. Sometimes it moves fast, and sometimes not. Ukraine has achieved miracles in a year and a half of all-out war, but magic wands remain in short supply. It…