[Forward the Light Brigade]

Looks like the war will start this week.

[Zhang Fei]

Looks like the war will start this week.

Nobody knows if Ukraine will fight. If they do, and go after Russian units in the east and south, it will be interesting to see what Russian body counts are. These are the numbers (of GI dead) from Iraq:

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2003	0	0	92	80	42	36	49	43	33	47	110	48	580
2004	52	23	52	140	84	50	58	75	87	68	141	76	906
2005	127	60	39	52	88	83	58	85	52	99	86	68	897
2006	64	58	34	82	79	63	46	66	77	111	78	115	873
2007	86	85	82	117	131	108	89	88	70	40	40	25	961
2008	40	30	40	52	21	31	13	23	25	14	17	16	322
2009	16	18	9	19	25	15	8	7	10	9	11	3	150
2010	6	6	7	8	6	8	4	3	7	2	2	1	60
2011	6	3	2	11	2	15	5	0	4	4	2	0	54
2012	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

We were losing dozens of men a month pretty much right after "Mission Accomplished". And these numbers were from an adversary (Sunni Arabs) that was at most, 20% of the Iraqi population (~25m in 2003).

[grania]

Looks like the war will start this week

It looks like the western temporary coup government will do whatever it takes to stop a referendum.