This is the beginning of the end for Putin.
Putin loves to cite history, including Czarist Imperial history of Russia, to justify his invasion of Ukraine. Perhaps he should have read up a bit on the Vietnam war when he would have learned the lesson that history taught to presidents Johnson and Nixon: make university students serve at your peril.
When our college boys saw they might actually have to go to Vietnam, they took to the streets and burned their draft cards. They suddenly found an acute sensitivity to war and found a devout pacifism.
I doubt Russian students and their mothers are any different than American students and mothers. They all are, after all, "special."
In the meantime,
Have you seen the recruiters in Ukraine and how they snag people at funerals (since young men might be there after a brother and father were already killed in this war), guys going out to the supermarket dressed as a women to avoid getting caught, or folks beating up the recruiter (that’s why they go in groups now), some resisting as they are forced into the van to be shipped off?
What does it mean when you only read and hear one side?
Want those video’s? Probably not. Doesn’t fit your narrative.
Let’s assume our most favorable for Ukraine and still realistic statistic of ~100,000 Ukrainian and ~188,000 Russian servicemen casualties is correct (no civilians where it’s almost exclusively Ukrainian and >30,000). If that were the case, but Ukraine only had 41,000,000 people before the war (even some men fled but we won’t consider that either), and Russia has 143,000,000 (and a better demographic, i.e. more young people, which we will not consider for ease of discussion and since it won’t matter anyhow), what does that mean? It means Russia would have to lose about 3.48 people for every Ukrainian... and all you have is 1.88 assuming a realistic rough ballpark and most favorable statistic floating out there.
However bad it is for Russia, it’s worse for Ukraine.
But sure, we’re winning on all fronts: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Nazi_Propaganda_-_V-Deutschland_Siegt_An_Allen_Fronten.jpg
I think I heard that one in history as well. In fact, that was still being screamed on the German radio as US forces crossed the Rhein and after Berlin fell. The worse the disaster, the bigger the lies need to be. Isn’t it time for some ghost pilot to shoot down 5 Russian Mig’s today?
