In today’s world, the battlefield has become transparent, the warheads much more precise and the weapons very cheap.
With each passing day, the battlefield in Ukraine is becoming more and more like the trenches of World War I. Artillery rains on static front lines, troops live in squalid, sodden hovels and the mine-strewn landscape is cratered with shell holes.
Forward progress is measured in meters, and retaken villages become less consequential, quickly forgotten as the days pass.
