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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's not strictly true. On the short end, there was the six-day war. On the long end, there was the hundred years' war.

Putin was clearly aiming for the short option, but then I suppose most belligerents usually are.

[–] justastranger@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd actually love to see a graph that shows the distribution of lengths of various wars

[–] threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted less than an hour

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

'Gunboat diplomacy' isn't very diplomatic.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude took the low end and said "fuck that we'll do it twice as fast."

The good news is I don't think Russia can continue to sustain these kind of losses for 199 more years.

[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Neither can Ukraine..