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To: marcusmaximus

Something big like a big battle.


2 posted on 05/23/2025 5:30:00 AM PDT by KobraKai
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There was another agreement in negotiations last week that has been nearly silent in the media.

There was an agreed exchange of corpses. The Russians agreed to send back 900+ corpses of Ukrainian soldiers and Ukraine agreed to return 27 Russian soldier corpses.

There was a leap to explain the disparity. Three reasons given.

The first was that Ukraine does not train their people to recover corpses because it is usually too dangerous. Does not reflect courage or morality. It is policy and it is training and the soldiers in the field who do not recover corpses are doing nothing wrong. They’re doing what they were trained to do.

Ukraine is largely in retreat and when soldiers fall they are behind Russian lines before they can be recovered, if there was any inclination to recover them.

And the last is the simplest cause. Asymmetry of casualties. The first two reasons were aggressively embraced by the few media outlets that covered it to try to lessen the significance of this third reason.


3 posted on 05/23/2025 5:36:57 AM PDT by Owen
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