Posted on 12/16/2023 5:12:25 PM PST by Kazan
No one wants to talk about Ukraine any more - The Spectator
Lionel Shriver writes, what she calls a “seasonal downer” and probably his most depressed view, since the start of the conflict.
“This endgame is more likely than ever. I’m not happy about that. In fact, it makes me sick. But the average age of the Ukrainian army is now 43 – a statistic that makes me even sicker.”
“They’re running out of young men, not because the young men won’t serve but because they’re dead. Ukrainian women are being sent to the front lines. Russia had nearly four times the population of Ukraine before the war; given the reduced population in Kyiv-controlled areas, the countries are now mismatched in manpower by a factor of five.”
“With his legacy and political future on the line, Putin is clearly all-in for the long haul. The easily manipulated Russian public have not rebelled. Putin’s inner sanctum hasn’t staged a coup. Russian GDP has increased since last year. The rouble started rising against the dollar. Western sanctions have failed.”
Zelensky himself is now considering conscripting those over 40. Videos show women on the frontlines for Ukraine. All that could only be true of a military completely depleted.
Ukraine has likely suffered 500,000 causalities in this war. Tens of thousands of younger men have fled Ukraine rather than be conscripted.
Foreign money unnecessarily prolonged the slaughter for dark motives and enriched evil people. No one won.
I don’t think they can concor Ukraine, bit they have achieved the goal of securing the Russian part.
The Nwo occupation government is not we.
Naw.
Putin says they lost 370k not including prisoners and Wagner or other mercenaries. That number, 370k, is reported losses to the Kremlin. Since Russia has a financial interest to not have families get pensions for dead combatants, it’s probably much much higher.
My take is the Russians have 200-300k dead prisoners, 100-200k dead Wagner and other mercenaries, and 400k dead actual Russian soldiers. That puts Russian losses closer to 750k to 1 million. Plus the Russians have lost 4-5 million people who have fled to avoid conscription.
The Ukrainian have lost probably 300k, but those losses include about 120k civilians from Russia targeted attacks on civilian areas, murders, rapes and murders, and so forth. So Ukraine has lost probably 180-200k soldiers. That makes ratios of about 6-8:1 not including those that fled.
The Russians appear to be winning right now, even losing at those ratios.
The idiotic part was we could have bribed Russia to leave for less $ and much less blood. But DemonRats and their neocon skimmers needed some extra cash before they crash the world. Dumb MF.
Russia is more than satisfied with the territory it has gained. But, it will go all the way to the Dnieper River and take the entire Black Sea coastline if Ukraine doesn't unconditionally surrender.
Ok, that is what I thought, because they could never occupy the other parts. It would be like Afghanistan.
I guess those missile attacks on the Russian bases yesterday really upset the Russian MOD. The pro Russia club is busy posting all the pro-Russian junk they can find.
Was it the long range missile strikes in the Donbass?
You understand that 90% of the money is being spent in US factories. Do you really think the people making ammunition and weapons in the USA are "neocon skimmers"?
Nonsense. Even Putin has given up on the BS. Putin just wants to conquer Ukraine.
He has destroyed most of the Russian speaking areas of Ukraine, including Mariupol, and killed tens of thousands of Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians.
All the other fake reasons are just BS propaganda.
This was a stupid war - and without Biden's short sighted stupidity it would have have been settled by now. Instead almost a whole generation is lost. How can people keep electing democrats? Are they blind?
But the average age of the Ukrainian army is now 43
What they don’t say is the average life expectancy of that 43 year old is 43.
There we have it! Keep the war going, no matter how many more die or end as amputees, so long as the defense industry keeps raking in the money!
Thanks for admitting that.
Those of us with a conscience, however, don't want to see more death and destruction just so the defense industry can keep booming and so our elite can continue to work with Ukrainian oligarchs to enrich themselves.
And then think about how many Russians were riding in those vehicles.
Answer: They aren't.
From what I have read of your posts you couldn't care less about Ukrainians dying. But nice try.
Can you translate what the guys are saying in the last video I posted? Are his fellow soldiers just taking a nap?
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