Posted on 09/21/2023 5:57:43 AM PDT by davikkm
Newsweek has finally shed light on the devastating losses that Ukraine has endured. Shockingly, leaked reports from the BBC reveal that in the first year of the conflict, a staggering 17,500 Ukrainian troops lost their lives. But the recent failed offensive has unleashed an even greater tragedy, resulting in an additional 50,000 casualties.
The heart-wrenching toll stands at a horrifying 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers dead and 120,000 wounded. These numbers are already staggering, but the reality may be even grimmer than what the media is willing to acknowledge.
Douglas Macgregor, widely regarded as one of the most accurate war analysts, suggests that the true casualty count for Ukraine may be around 400,000. This is a stark reminder that the situation is far worse than what has been revealed.
The question that echoes in our minds is this: How many more young men and women must lose their lives before we can secure a lasting peace? The time for negotiations and an end to this devastating conflict is long overdue.
No, “we” in the “must STOP THIS WAR”.
It stops when the money stops. Not before.
It stops when Putin admits (is forced to admit) that he and his regime have committed a war crime by invading Ukraine and annexing vast swathes of it.
Regards,
No, the US does NOT have to stop this war. It ain’t none of our business. Russia is fighting. Ukraine is fighting. Neither are our friends. Let ‘em fight.
“Douglas Macgregor, widely regarded as one of the most accurate war analysts”
“Kiev will fall in 2 weeks” Doug has been wrong in every one of his predictions on this war.
Why post this garbage?
Why not? We listen to Zeeper crap propaganda 24/7.
Your statement is all emotion and ZERO logic. The Ukraine War is a Slavic Civil War initiated by NATO's ever eastward expansion right up to Russia's most vulnerable area of their border, the Pontic-Caspian Steppe.
You should be even happier now that that the Clinton Global Initiative is getting rich and well-supplied with trafficked children off of this war.

It stops when the GloboHomoPedos stop fomenting provocations and pouring resources on the conflict.
A war popped up on a country that had paid SFB (——for brains)Joe Robinnest Biden and to earn his graft he had to pay billions upon billions to the Nazi phony Jew that we had to borrow from Joe’s good friend China,
Our political ‘leaders’ never saw a war they didn’t either want to start or join in on. This is regardless of the fact that Russia is NOT considered an enemy of the USA. It is, merely, a convenient nation for which Queen Hillary pretended her arch-enemy Donald J. Trump is a spy.
Meanwhile this nation is rapidly circling the drain thanks to the ensconcing of Obama and his puppet Biden as co-presidents thanks to a thoroughly crooked election.
I recall in the book, play and movie The Caine Mutiny that the XO and complicit crew thought they were able to remove a nutty skipper in time of dire emergency at sea. Well, the USA is definitely at sea and the skipper is a basket case and has been weird and nutty his entire lying life.
Get rid of this horrible mistake! Throw his putrid ass overboard.
This is none of our business. It’s a 300 year old border dispute between two hyper corrupt oligarchies. There are no good guys here, and that includes us.
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This:
“It stops when Putin admits (is forced to admit) that he and his regime have committed a war crime by invading Ukraine and annexing vast swathes of it.”
Stop sending American $billions to Ukraine and it ends tomorrow.
190,000 casualties is less than 0.44% of Ukraine’s population.
That is very light casualties for a civil war. In the US Civil War, about 620,000 were killed, or about 2% of the population. Total casualties including killed, wounded and died of disease were probably over 5%.
Ukraine has a long way to go.
I agree with you completely. I can see no discernable, national security interest the United States has over there. It’s American treasure now, is it going to be the blood of American Marines later? Just a thought from an old Marine, 1st Battalion, Third Marines, Republic of South Vietnam, 1968/69, Con Thien, The Rock Pile, The Market Place. Regards.
Lots of supposedly conservative people want to sell out Ukraine.
BALDERDASH!
Tantamount to declaring:
Mr. Smith revealed that Mr. Axkiller offered to not rape and kill Miss Peterson if Mr. Smith would agree to not marry Miss Peterson. Mr. Smith's marriage proposal thus triggered the war, and Mr. Smith is therefore complicit, while Mr. Axkiller is blameless.
Regards,
Russia - the successor state of the Soviet Union, the dissolution of which Putin declared the "greatest catastrophe" of the 20th century - is the greatest military threat to the U.S.
During the heyday of the Cold War, no person in his right mind would have denied this.
Admittedly, Russia is not as powerful militarily as the Soviet Union was - and other nations (India, China) have risen in military might.
But it is nonetheless fair to say that Putin's Russia currently still presents the greatest military threat to the United States.
So anything that degrades the military might of Putin's Russia - anything that reduces his armory, decimates his troops, and/or diminishes Russia's geopolitical standing - is perforce a good thing for America.
Regards,
Then why does Russia have more ICBMs targeting America than does any other nation?
You can argue semantics until you're blue in the face - but as long as a foreign country is aiming nuclear weapons at your homeland, you should view them accordingly.
Regards,
—> BALDERDASH
You misspelled TRUE
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