Day 1,917: attrition, crumble

In the past two years Russia and Ukraine have fought a costly war of attrition.

But Ukraine, with a fifth as many people as Russia, is hurting too. Its lines could crumble before Russia’s war effort is exhausted.

The war is going badly. Ukraine and its allies must change course

Artwork of the day 
Crumbling Rocks
Gustave_Courbet
Date: 1864
Style: Realism
Genre: landscape
Media: oil, canvas

Word of the day 
attrition: gradually making something weaker and destroying it, especially the strength or confidence of an enemy by repeatedly attacking it:
crumble: to break, or cause something to break, into small pieces:

Quote of the day
“When he had thought of death before, he had thought of it either as a literary event or as the slow, quiet attrition of time against imperfect flesh.”

― John Williams, Stoner