For context, about 55,000 American troops died in Vietnam over about 12-15 years. Russia lost 40,000 in a single month, and they’ve lost well over a million in just a couple years.
The title of this article is bad. Further down they reference that ISW estimates 40,000 casualties for June. So killed and wounded. Still horrific, but even with Russia’s atrocious killed to wounded ratio more like 10-20k killed.
Recent statement of Rubio was that Russia now has more killed than wounded. That would mean they are down to not even pre-WW1 but medieval casualty levels. And its not unlikely as their casualties would be on the offensive infiltration operations where there’s no chance of evacuation. - As per Perun.
I’ve had this sense building for a while that the world is returning to medieval times. Or that, that’s what the powerful people in control everywhere want to happen to normal people while they control all the tech and everything. I hope I’m wrong. But all it would really take is one big grid failure the world over. One big solar flare from the sun. It’s probably an outlandish feeling but eh.
It really is an incomprehensible loss, there are voids now in russian society that will never be filled in, missing lifetimes piled up in ghostly stacks, and there are the innumerable international connections russia has destroyed from crudely extracting human bodies to use as grunts on the frontline that don’t know they are being sent there until the last moment…
Which isn’t to dwell on the tragedy of russians, they can stop this war at any time and yet they fight on like cowards devoted to licking the boot until the very end… it is rather to point out the scale of human loss here is solemn.
See professor Jeffrey Sachs. The US did a color revolution in Ukraine and installed a puppet regime who integrated nazi battalions into the Ukrainian army and enacted official holidays to honor Nazism. The Ukrainian people elected Zelensky on a platform of peace, but Zelensky obeyed his US masters. Kiev genocided Russian-speaking people on its own territory and threatened to become part of NATO, which would mean NATO troops, military bases and nuclear weapons on a huge and strategic border with Russia. The US had promised Gorbachev that NATO would not move an inch eastward.
The US did worse for far less when the USSR put nuclear missiles in Cuba – which by the way was a reciprocal act for the US putting nuclear missiles in Turkey. In fact, the US recently threatened to invade Panama just because it had commercial relationships to China. Now it threatens the same for Cuba.
US and Europe framing Russia as a threat is an affront to human decency.
It is so irrational that Europe:
on one minute says Russia is weak, on the verge of collapse. Just one more month of weapons for Ukraine and Russia is done!
on the other minute says that Russia is a threat even to Central Europe. The mighty Russia juggernaut could march on Berlin!
Besides, Russia has an enormous territory with an extremely small demographic density, low fertility, and an ageing population. The war to annex the separatist republics in Eastern Ukraine has a huge cost, and is only (barely) justified for the reasons above. It is flat-Earthism to think that Russia would embark on an adventure to take over much of Europe. Such an adventure would be sure defeat, and even an (impossible) “victory” would mean gaining more territory, which Russia has in abundance, while losing the precious little young population it still has. That Europeans believe this lunacy is evidence of late-stage capitalism induced irrationality.
That is a bad comparison because the US (as usual) used part of the people (the people under the South Vietnam dictatorship) as cannon fodder to kill the other part.
For context, about 55,000 American troops died in Vietnam over about 12-15 years. Russia lost 40,000 in a single month, and they’ve lost well over a million in just a couple years.
That’s the definition of a Meat Grinder War.
The title of this article is bad. Further down they reference that ISW estimates 40,000 casualties for June. So killed and wounded. Still horrific, but even with Russia’s atrocious killed to wounded ratio more like 10-20k killed.
Recent statement of Rubio was that Russia now has more killed than wounded. That would mean they are down to not even pre-WW1 but medieval casualty levels. And its not unlikely as their casualties would be on the offensive infiltration operations where there’s no chance of evacuation. - As per Perun.
I’ve had this sense building for a while that the world is returning to medieval times. Or that, that’s what the powerful people in control everywhere want to happen to normal people while they control all the tech and everything. I hope I’m wrong. But all it would really take is one big grid failure the world over. One big solar flare from the sun. It’s probably an outlandish feeling but eh.
It really is an incomprehensible loss, there are voids now in russian society that will never be filled in, missing lifetimes piled up in ghostly stacks, and there are the innumerable international connections russia has destroyed from crudely extracting human bodies to use as grunts on the frontline that don’t know they are being sent there until the last moment…
Which isn’t to dwell on the tragedy of russians, they can stop this war at any time and yet they fight on like cowards devoted to licking the boot until the very end… it is rather to point out the scale of human loss here is solemn.
No, Russia cannot stop the war at any time.
See professor Jeffrey Sachs. The US did a color revolution in Ukraine and installed a puppet regime who integrated nazi battalions into the Ukrainian army and enacted official holidays to honor Nazism. The Ukrainian people elected Zelensky on a platform of peace, but Zelensky obeyed his US masters. Kiev genocided Russian-speaking people on its own territory and threatened to become part of NATO, which would mean NATO troops, military bases and nuclear weapons on a huge and strategic border with Russia. The US had promised Gorbachev that NATO would not move an inch eastward.
The US did worse for far less when the USSR put nuclear missiles in Cuba – which by the way was a reciprocal act for the US putting nuclear missiles in Turkey. In fact, the US recently threatened to invade Panama just because it had commercial relationships to China. Now it threatens the same for Cuba.
US and Europe framing Russia as a threat is an affront to human decency.
It is so irrational that Europe:
Besides, Russia has an enormous territory with an extremely small demographic density, low fertility, and an ageing population. The war to annex the separatist republics in Eastern Ukraine has a huge cost, and is only (barely) justified for the reasons above. It is flat-Earthism to think that Russia would embark on an adventure to take over much of Europe. Such an adventure would be sure defeat, and even an (impossible) “victory” would mean gaining more territory, which Russia has in abundance, while losing the precious little young population it still has. That Europeans believe this lunacy is evidence of late-stage capitalism induced irrationality.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-nazi-collaborator-birthday-holiday-anti-semitic-1272911
That is a bad comparison because the US (as usual) used part of the people (the people under the South Vietnam dictatorship) as cannon fodder to kill the other part.