At the start of the “Special Military Operation” more than a year ago, the Ukrainian Army outnumbered the Russians by a factor of three. Even with their advantage in numbers, the Ukrainian defenses failed to stop the numerically inferior Russian force and failed to expel the Russians from the Luhansk and Donetsk territories.
We now are being enticed to believe that Ukraine, with a numerically inferior force compared to Russia’s current troop deployment, is going to mount an offensive, despite a severe lack of tanks, armored vehicles, mobile artillery and air cover, that will drive the Russians from fortifications erected during the last six months.
Ukrainian officials persist in making wild claims about Russian defeats, low morale and catastrophic casualties. There is a very simple test you can do to evaluate the Ukrainian claim about Russia’s losses — find the social media and count the photos and videos. If Russia had suffered the number of killed and wounded cited by Ukrainian and Western officials and pundits, then it would be impossible to hide those photos and videos. Social media and smart phones are ubiquitous and grieving wives, girl friends, parents and friends are not easy to corral.
Images and videos like the following are widely available on Ukrainian Telegram channels. The opposite is true when it comes to finding comparable material on Russian channels. There are a few photos of newly dug graves in a Russian military cemetery, but nothing like the quantity of images recording Ukraine losses.
“At the start of the “Special Military Operation” more than a year ago, the Ukrainian Army outnumbered the Russians by a factor of three”
Not true.
But if it helps you cope with the loss, pretend away.
I always appreciate your take on things gives great insight into Russian mentality
With the ever increasing draconian control
Of the information space in Russia, where calling it a war puts you in prison, where posting anything negative on “SMO”or military in general gets you a prison sentence, where thousands of Russian bodies lie rotting in fields and at best listed as MIA is the norm yes reassure yourself that because RT does not report it, it didn’t happen.
Whether or not Russia has a manpower advantage the point is when the Ukrainians attack at that point they will not and how private conscriptikov reacts, and what resources the Russians have to react with will be key
My bet is in the Ukrainians, lol I know yours