# What do you think are acceptable exit conditions for \[the Ukraine\] war?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** ukraine-invasion\
**Created:** [February 22, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-are-acceptable-exit-conditions-for-the-ukraine-war/980189 "2023-02-22T01:41:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-are-acceptable-exit-conditions-for-the-ukraine-war/980189/291 "2023-02-27T10:43:49Z")

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The “experts” really ought to do a lot of soul searching here. There weren’t good reasons to assume Russia was going to have an easy win a year ago - they just made several dumb assumptions and most “experts” went along with it. War is inherently unpredictable.

As a non “expert” (though I am a veteran and a professional military logistician) who is not humble enough to avoid tooting my own horn [again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-putin-crazy-enough-to-move-into-the-baltic-countries/960022/98) and [again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-putin-crazy-enough-to-move-into-the-baltic-countries/960022/49) and [again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-putin-crazy-enough-to-move-into-the-baltic-countries/960022/64), I’ll remind everyone once again that war is almost entirely about morale and logistics, and experts should have seen that Ukraine had a big advantage in both last February.

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