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That's not strictly true. On the short end, there was the six-day war. On the long end, there was the hundred years' war.
Putin was clearly aiming for the short option, but then I suppose most belligerents usually are.
I'd actually love to see a graph that shows the distribution of lengths of various wars
The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted less than an hour
'Gunboat diplomacy' isn't very diplomatic.
Dude took the low end and said "fuck that we'll do it twice as fast."
The good news is I don't think Russia can continue to sustain these kind of losses for 199 more years.
Neither can Ukraine..