"Poor Ukrainians. The war of attrition that they have been forced to engage in will not stop until the principals of the conflict decide it must. Contrary to popular opinion those principals are not Russia and Ukraine but rather the U.S. and China."

This resource war is the harbinger of things to come this decade.

Russia has made it clear that it will not hand over its fossil fuel resources and China will not let the west control the Middle Eastern, Iraqi and Russian oil resources at the same time.

https://medium.com/politically-speaking/why-taiwans-fate-is-tied-to-ukraine-s-9f5c2f3b52be