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Ukraine Is Becoming Another Verdun
Ukraine Is Becoming Another Verdun
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Epoch Times,
This is a lightly edited transcript of an Oct. 22 segment of the "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words" podcast.
The war in Ukraine has gone on for four years - 4.7 years. Feb. 24 of next year, it'll be five years. It's longer than World War I. It's longer than the American Civil War. It's longer than the U.S. Pacific War. There are about 2.5 million combined Russian and Ukrainian casualties.
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