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UristMcHammer t1_jabvl7j wrote

it's literally the "we've won... but at what cost" meme

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nagrom7 t1_jac0qt4 wrote

"One more such victory and we are undone" - King Pyrrhus of Epirus, origin of the term 'Pyrrhic victory', which is what Bakhmut would be considered to the Russians. He was famous for winning stunning victories against the Romans that involved so many casualties on his side that he could never capitalise on them.

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