trench war

In that case our potential strengths in 10 years are irrelevant, and the fact that we’re currently building anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles only to burn through them, adding more than $7 in new spending on Ukraine for every $1 dollar in spending related to our Asian and Australian allies and tethering military and diplomatic attention to a trench war in Eastern Europe, means that we’re basically inviting the Chinese to make their move, and soon.

That is in part because of a weekslong pause by Moscow in its offensive to rotate and refresh troops, but also because Ukraine has been preparing defensive positions in Donetsk since 2014 — when rebels loyal to Russia seized government buildings there and in Luhansk, beginning a long trench war with Ukrainian forces — that are difficult to dislodge.

The estimated 10,000 people living in this town — where in 2021 the Ukrainian government restored its founding name, New York, to distance it from its Soviet past — have struggled for survival as the smoldering trench war grinds on in Donetsk.

Younger acts can get in too: A producer battle between Hit-Boy and Boi-1da was an early sensation in the trench war for IG Live supremacy.

Norbert Röttgen, a German politician jockeying to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel, likened the continent’s infighting to “a grueling trench war,” as he joined the chorus of voices warning that the E.U. is in grave peril.