Footage recorded on the Eastern Front of the conflict in Ukraine shows Ukrainian Soldiers firing machine guns from their trench lines towards Russian positions.

Every day the war in Ukraine continues, we have to wonder less and less what World War One would have looked like. From rolling artillery barrages to machine gun positions spraying enemy trench lines, Ukraine is showing us every single day what that conflict must have looked like, only we're seeing it in ten second clips like the one above, often with TikTok music overlaid over the top of it to glamorize or glorify one side or the other.

The chief reason we're seeing this is because commanders on both sides of the conflict are failing to find the enemy's weak points, and they're failing to make advances. This is an unpopular opinion, I know, but the Ukrainians and Russians both are proving that they're incapable of making advances in light of new weapon systems on the battlefield. This actually isn't necessarily either side's fault either. They're both fighting an entirely new style of warfare that the world has never seen before, much like the troops who fought in World War One who were first introduced to chemical and automatic weapons.

While I have to commend the few Ukrainian Pilots who have made it impossible for the Russians to gain air superiority considering how outnumbered and outgunned they are in the skies, the simple fact of the matter is that those few pilots are incapable of gaining air dominance in Russian controlled territory themselves. This isn't for a lack of skill, but a lack of capabilities as the Ukrainians simply don't have enough pilots or aircraft to risk them in an attempt to establish air superiority over Russian forces. As a result of that, the introduction of commercial drones, and advances in intelligence and cyberwarfare capabilities, neither side is able to get the leg up needed to move the needle forward in maneuver warfare.

Instead, and I said this yesterday, what we're seeing is a complete de-evolution in warfighting back to its most basic concepts, which is something the Russian have honestly never stopped doing in the first place, which is what's causing them to ultimately suffer at the hands of the Ukrainians, which they outnumber greatly.

Those basic concepts? Dig into the defense, and hold your position until better conditions for the offense have been set. Neither side is going to be setting those conditions in the near future, so we can expect to continue seeing lots of artillery fire, lots of drone strikes, lots of ATGM strikes, and loads and loads and loads of over-the-horizon weapon systems being utilized to wreak havoc and destroy lives while both sides sit uncomfortably in miserable trenches.

Quick side note, if this offends anyone who stands on either side of the fence. I really don't care. I'm just telling you what I'm seeing from an objective stand point. If you've read anything else by me in the past, you can tell that I clearly have a Ukrainian bias when it comes to this conflict. That said, the truth is sometimes simple and hard at the same time. You can't win a war by dropping a grenade in the hatch of a BMP and then not maneuvering past that BMP to control the ground the BMP was previously controlling. All you've done is degraded one vehicle, of which your enemy has tens of thousands and a near infinite capability of production. If neither side moves forward, the war will continue to go on ad infinity. Conflicts only end when one side controls all of the ground the other side wishes to control.