US Marine veteran and geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic says Russia, leveraging a large industrial base and the ability to sustain trained forces, is pursuing a war of attrition intended to exhaust Ukraine and its Western backers. He says Russia can strike expensive, hard-to-replace Western-supplied equipment and target industrial facilities, command centers and dual-use infrastructure, degrading Ukraine faster than Ukraine or its Western supporters can replenish personnel, equipment and ammun

US Marine veteran and geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic says Russia, leveraging a large industrial base and the ability to sustain trained forces, is pursuing a war of attrition intended to exhaust Ukraine and its Western backers. He says Russia can strike expensive, hard-to-replace Western-supplied equipment and target industrial facilities, command centers and dual-use infrastructure, degrading Ukraine faster than Ukraine or its Western supporters can replenish personnel, equipment and ammunition. To date, he adds, Western production capacity and the scale of Ukrainian drone strikes have not matched Russia.