When Both Countries Are Super Cheap and Use Fabian Like Strategy in War

When both countries like Fabian like strategies, war can gradually get very silly. Current war between Russia and Ukraine is just such war.

It begun rather normal with armed columns rolling the roads and taking control of places, but then gradually feel lower and lower.

Ukraine's Bayraktars, equipped with Hellfire missiles were making, rust coffins out of expensive Russian equipment, equipped with thermobaric weapons and such. Russian solution: replace expensive equipment with inexpensive one and make Ukraine expend all its good ammunition against these, then bring back good weapons and win. A big brain plan, that did not age well.

Ukraine soon figured that they do not need good ammunition against cheap weapons Russia begun to send against them. Sure, you need a Hellfire to take down expensive thermobaric artillery that can fire from a very safe distance, but against BTR, WWII era tanks like T-34 and the like, something cheap like $500 Amazon drone with explosives attached by a duct tape would work just as fine. So, Amazon drones took to the sky as Hellfire and Javelin was kept in storage in case Russia will bring back its thermobaric weapons again.

Russian solution: go even cheaper. Several years into war Russia started to send soldiers on literal dirt bikes, vespas or even sent them on food with explosives attached to them in hope to beat Ukraine in cost of war competition. Meanwhile Ukraine started making their own home designed drones that are even cheaper than Amazon ones to make sure they are never out of ammunition.

By now most fighting has long gone from the battlefield to twitter. Words and insults are cheap, and both sides are very generous with dishing these at their opponents as they sit and wait until the other side gives up or gets abandoned by allies or runs out of ammunition or soldiers or both. 

As much as it is offensive and insulting to the soldiers involved, the war gradually devolved into a clown show. And Russia carries most blame for it going this way.

I can only imagine Americans and Europeans looking at this mess rather puzzled. 

That reminds me of the time when in Fate/Zero Gilgamesh looked at heroic spirits trying to defeat the monster, caster summoned. "Sure, they are mongrels, but they were supposed to be heroic spirits..."

Well as things stand the whole war process does not move anywhere so a Korean style ceasefire is the only solutions.