South Africans have popularised a phrase that perfectly captures the creeping paralysis of Jamaican public accountability: the ‘Stalingrad strategy’. Born amid the labyrinthine legal manoeuvres surrounding former President Jacob Zuma and the corrosive era of state capture, the term describes a calculated doctrine of judicial attrition. Rather than refuting allegations swiftly on their merits, powerful actors systematically exhaust the State and the citizenry through relentless procedural combat.