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Putin Is Throwing Human Waves at Ukraine, But Can’t Do It Forever
Foreign Policy ^ | November 25, 2024 | Alexey Kovalev

Posted on 11/25/2024 4:46:13 AM PST by Timber Rattler

One of the bleakest places on Earth today is the central processing facility for the remains of dead soldiers in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the logistical hub of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Designed to process hundreds of corpses at a time, this sprawling mega-morgue has been hopelessly overwhelmed for many months. Footage from the inside, posted by witnesses on social media, shows hundreds of bodies in various stages of decomposition and limbs strewn across the corridor floors. In wooden boxes lining the walls from floor to ceiling, row after row after row, are the lucky ones: those whose bodies were recovered from the battlefield, identified, sealed in zinc-lined caskets, and prepared for dispatch to their grieving relatives in the farthest corners of Russia. Many more corpses have been abandoned to rot in Ukrainian fields because evacuating them is impractical under the constant barrage of the defenders’ artillery and drones.

To be sure: These soldiers’ deaths are the necessary consequence of Ukraine’s right to defend itself against an illegal war of conquest. What’s more, many of these ordinary Russian soldiers likely committed despicable brutality and war crimes against Ukrainians, including defenseless civilians. But the horrific rate at which Russians are getting killed at the front—much higher than corresponding Ukrainian losses, although exact numbers are kept secret by both sides—points to two disturbing truths about the Russian way of waging war. First, a cruel disregard for human life extends to Russia’s own forces, which the Kremlin systematically deploys in so-called meat grinder and human-wave attacks. Second, mass death among Russian troops has become part of an increasingly explicit eugenics policy, by which the Kremlin seeks to rid Russia of undesirable elements and reconfigure the Russian population.

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To: Timber Rattler

So how many Ukrainians are left?


21 posted on 11/25/2024 5:28:56 AM PST by struggle
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To: Timber Rattler

“Can’t do it forever.” Well, they can do it longer than Ukraine can; they have four times the population. But those fans cheering on the rebirth of the Soviet Union miss the obvious: This is about a military expedition; losing the Vietnam war didn’t mean that Viet Cong soldiers captured the White House and sent Congress off to death camps. The thought that Russia would deplete its entire military capability on adventurism seems simply incredible.


22 posted on 11/25/2024 5:30:56 AM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

Russia has run out of soldiers.

Russia is now forced to pay North Koreans to come freeze and die. Russia is now forced to hire worthless mercanirey bodies from Nepal, China and Yemen


23 posted on 11/25/2024 5:34:57 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: C210N

Correct !
After the election, the Ukie spam has considerably increased.
They have turned it into their free propaganda forum.


24 posted on 11/25/2024 5:42:18 AM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)
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To: Krosan

Yes!

How could Russia survive WW1, flu pandemic, revolution, purge, and WW2 in quick succession? Why this little affair in Ukraine is nothing—so say the War Mongers.

It’s all about birth rate. Traditional Russia had something like 5 children survive per mother. Now it’s what? 1.5????

makes all the difference in the world. ( the same for Ukr)


25 posted on 11/25/2024 6:00:20 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: bert
--- "Russia has run out of soldiers."

If the assertion is true, then the war is over. No need to send more materiel and money.

Thanks for your assertion that "Russia has run out of soldiers."

26 posted on 11/25/2024 6:01:48 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Timber Rattler

Putain is a bastard and war criminal. Thousands of dead Ukrainians and Russians are laid to his charge. The US and western powers AND PUTAIN agreed to defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine in return for them surrendering nuclear weapons. They did so AND THE LYING BASTARD PUTAIN broke that agreement as he broke the nuclear weapons agreement with us.
Biden is responsible for this fir making stupid comments,displaying his Administrations incompetence in Afghantinstan, spoonfeeding weaponry to Ukraine and - I AM SURE - GETTING HIS CUSTOMARY KICKBACK.

IF PUTAIN IS NOT STOPPED IN UKRAINE, HE WILL
ROLL THROUGH EASTERN EUROPE, RE-CREATE THE EVIL EMPIRE AND THREATEN THE WORLD IN CONCERT WITH HIS ALLIES CHINA AND IRAN.

UKRAINE CANNOT BE MADE A 21ST CENTURY MUNICHIAN “DEAL” WITH THIS DEVIL.


27 posted on 11/25/2024 6:12:24 AM PST by ZULU (Remember: ABBEY GATE, Kate Steinle, Joscelyn Nungary, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley. )
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To: Timber Rattler

You know it is getting close to Payday when Timber and Maximoose post multiple Russia - Russia - Russia articles! They must have a number to hit for a full paycheck.


28 posted on 11/25/2024 6:13:27 AM PST by EC Washington
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To: Timber Rattler

The Rattler,..a DOD official is worried about his job............


29 posted on 11/25/2024 6:24:42 AM PST by blackberry1
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To: Krosan

Interesting. Military aged men and women do not differ. Suggests there is no measurable deficit in the male population under the age of 40. Overall the change from 1939 reflects the general aging of the population.


30 posted on 11/25/2024 6:44:49 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Yeah right, Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island, washing machine chips, shovels,….Ivan has done well with his hypersonic Oreshnik missile using stolen washing machine chips and shovels…..

The victims of the western MSM narrative are amusing….that Hopium drug must be some good stuff.


31 posted on 11/25/2024 6:45:57 AM PST by delta7
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To: Timber Rattler

I don’t have a dog in this fight between two kleptocracies.

But this article is pure propaganda.


32 posted on 11/25/2024 6:49:59 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (NOT TIRED OF WINNING!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Fake news. Russia does not do meat wave attacks. Rather, they use platoon and company units, often on motorbikes to take positions (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F4akL1AS5w where this tactic is discussed). Telegram is full of videos showing this. They first saturate the area with artillery and drone strikes, may drive a tank and IFV in the area to draw out the Ukrainians with their AT weapons so that they can be targeted by the drones, and then flank around pockets of resistance so that the artillery and drones can wipe out the defenders. Heavily fortified redoubts are targeted with glide bombs to convert them into 30-meter-wide craters.

And they are doing this all along the 900-km long front, in hundreds of areas. This “death by a thousand cuts” is bleeding out Ukraine to the tune of around 2000 soldiers a day. This is why Ukrainians are deserting and surrendering. This is why Ukraine is losing everywhere, especially in its heavily-fortified eastern flank that they have spent a decade reinforcing.

In six months, Ukraine is done - the entire front will collapse and they will have to surrender to avoid losing everything.


33 posted on 11/25/2024 7:00:42 AM PST by Raymond Pamintuan
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To: Timber Rattler

did they give you trolls a raise since the election?


34 posted on 11/25/2024 7:16:21 AM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Allegra; AndyJackson; ANKE69; bimboeruption; Candor7; Carriage Hill; C210N; Cold_Red_Steel; ...
‘Hey

ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!
(((PING!)))

35 posted on 11/25/2024 7:28:22 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: Timber Rattler
Hundreds (at least) of videos are released daily on this war, and yet the hundreds of NATO war propaganda articles claiming huge Russian losses never post a single video showing such a "human wave" attack. MM shared a photo of a single burning vehicle with dead crew strewn from it as his evidence of "massed attacks." It's pathetic how you guys keep lying.

What the daily sitreps show is a handful of vehicles (APCs, motorbikes, golf carts, whatever) making short rushes and disgorging infantry squads to take ground after softening it up with artillery and drone strikes. The "human wave" nonsense has no connection with reality, which is why you are reduced to posting WWII movie footage instead of real footage! Good grief.

36 posted on 11/25/2024 7:29:24 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Krosan

Pretty much every nation on earth has gone through that same pattern, in case you haven’t been paying attention. I believe that’s half the reason the globalists threw the borders open in the US, to desperately gather in as many workers as they could before everything dries up.


37 posted on 11/25/2024 7:33:07 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Timber Rattler

38 posted on 11/25/2024 7:46:05 AM PST by Allegra (Deplorable garbage)
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To: Timber Rattler

The Ukies will run out of solders quicker than Ruzzia.
Hopefully Trump can end the bloodletting on both sides
before WW3 starts.


39 posted on 11/25/2024 7:55:43 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Timber Rattler

How’s it going over on The Briefing Room?

Still having fun bashing FR and pro-America FReepers?

Still identifying as a Conservative?


40 posted on 11/25/2024 8:08:47 AM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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