Right or wrong, I have to say, if we had lost so many men and equipment for so little gain, we’d be raking POTUS and DOW over the proverbial coals in the media and online. I can’t help but wonder what people in Russia must be thinking. There’s no way their success ratio would be acceptable to any country.
Does the average person in Russia worry about retaliation from their government if they voice disapproval of Putin’s actions in Ukraine or is that only for higher up like heads of companies etc who fall out 4th floor windows?
Well said. Russia is not only losing numbers, it is losing young men. The result will be a society in 2030, 2040, 2050 with an imbalance. Who will produce and raise the replacement generation? Will Russia suddenly welcome Hamas refugees as the replacement population? Of course not.
Of course, Ukraine is losing population also.
In WWII, Russia was losing, as I recall, about three soldiers for every German soldier they took out.
They just kept on coming. The German generals could not believe the Soviets could take such losses without giving up. In many of the earlier battles, before the Soviets gained dominance, the losses were five to one in favor of the Germans.
The Soviet Union had about twice the population of Germany.
In total, the Soviet Union lost about 10 million soldiers and Germany lost about 5 million, with the Soviets accounting for 3.75 million of those.
The Soviets lost about 16 million civilians, of which Stalin was responsible for millions. The Germans lost about two million of their civilian population.
I can’t help but wonder what people in Russia must be thinking.
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People in Russia think what they are told to think.
It is not about territorial gain, it’s about destroying the Ukraine Army , which for the most part has been done. Ukraine has lost approximately 1.7 Million Soldiers, Russian losses are a fraction of that.
Russia is not interested in taking over all of Ukraine, they have the parts they want.
It’s just Brit MI-6 BS, and marcusclownus loves to post it.