unwinnable

“The population lives with recurrent and intergenerational psychosocial trauma and social death. For lasting peace, it is urgent that Kashmir be recognized as an equal partner in this tripartite conflict. Walking away from the brink of an unwinnable war by two nuclear states is less and less likely each time.”

"We've shown we can win seats seen as unwinnable - and now we need to turn those victories into real power," the MP for Waveney Valley said.

The Ukraine war has now shown itself to be almost certainly unwinnable, at least for Ukraine.

Herein lies the controversy: Those campaign stalwarts found that, by and large, they did a great job on Harris’ campaign, that the race was basically unwinnable, that frustrated Democratic voters—who can’t believe that they got swept by the least popular president in American history—are being unfair and uncharitable to the strategists’ efforts in what was a very compressed campaign season.

That was then, at the height of the controversial war in Vietnam, when the question was who bore responsibility for speaking truth to power, for holding to task those responsible for prosecuting such an undeclared, unpopular and unwinnable war.