Posted on 08/27/2023 8:06:39 AM PDT by JonPreston
Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel of the United States Army and a political analyst, told Tucker Carlson in an interview on his program on the social media network X, formerly known as Twitter, that Ukraine has already lost 400,000 soldiers in its war with Russia. His revelation comes as the New York Times reported that Ukraine’s counteroffensive is struggling because some of Kiev’s best troops are “in the wrong places.”
“I think all of the lies that have been told for more than a year and a half about “the Ukrainians are winning”, “Ukrainian causes just”, “the Russians are evil”, “the Russians are incompetent” - all of that is collapsing. And it's collapsing because what’s happening on the battlefield is horrific,” Macgregor told Carlson.
In this sense, the former adviser to the Department of Defense during the Presidency of Donald Trump affirmed that Ukraine had lost 400,000 men during the conflict with Russia.
“Ukrainians now we think have lost 400,000 men killed in battle. We were talking about 300-350,000 a few months ago. Within the last month of this supposed counteroffensive which was to sweep the battlefield, they lost at least 40,000 killed,” he said.
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Zelensky sold out though.
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/08/16/zelensky-ukraines-notorious-neo-nazi/
A striking similarity to Hitler in so many ways...not Z, but his Nazi buddy.
Go to reddit Combat Footage and you will see a plethora of combat footage, most of it only days, or hours old.
But if you see a video tagged "NSFL" -- Not Safe for Life, be warned that it is truly horrific.
He is a liar, who abuses his long in the past military service to peddle lies to Putin Fanbois, and the gullible.
In other words, I despise him for the very same reasons you adore him.
But hey, its always good to see Putin Fanbois claiming that the Ukes don't fight, refuse to advance because they are untrained cowards, and that they have suffered 400,000, dead, which at a conservative rate of five wounded per death, means 2,400,000, combat casualties, while not fighting, and the fact the front is moving West, however slowly, after the Ukes have lost 2,400,000, men, is proof that Putin's Cunning Plan™ is working!
The World Bank?
You choose to use World Bank as opposed to the more significant indicator and which most people use to measure economic health of a country?
Sorry but, picking ans choosing is not now an argument is won or settled. The 2023 figures that I linked you to is what is used to measure the stability of a country’s economy. Russia is still very insignificant, and playing with the figures is not going to change things.
And, PPP is not trustworthy because there are many significant factors which don’t favor a lot of nations.
But, even with your chart, Russia is still very small compared to the U.S. China, Japan and India. Russia is ranked slightly higher than a bunch of other smaller countries, while it’s a bigger country in population and size. Russia is a basket case. China is significant in GDP, but , it’s also a basket case, since about 90% of its population lives in dire poverty, while a huge percentage of its GDP is eaten up by the military.
Remember that, a healthy economy is not indicated by just its size.
So, the word ‘stupid’ is being bounced right back at you, because, playing with the statistics doesn’t win the argument and is also failing to face reality on the ground. Russia is a very insignificant player on the world stage, economically. A population of about 144 million means that Russians are more poor than many 3rd world countries.
I made my point at the time and explained it. You never addressed my arguments but keep repeating the same stuff all over again. Tell me what is wrong with PPP? Would you mind me telling the difference between Big Mac in Russia for $1.25 and the same in the US for $5.50?
Spoken like a Biden Puffer.
It gets fancier the further you get. JDAM costs the Russian military $3,500.
Have you been to Russia at all?
A Moscovite making $1,600 a month is living better than Chicagoan making $80,000 per year.
Absolutely.
“Even the poor in Chicago are better off than most Russians.”
“don’t have to visit Russia in order to be informed about life “
I’d say that it is way easier in Moscow to kaie $1,600 a month than to make $80,000 a year in Chicago.
You can make it by driving Uber and delivering pizza.
And you can make ends meet in Russia for a full year off two months of work.
In Chicago you are no further than two paychecks from being homeless, at every moment.
Where are all the junkies and homeless in Russia? They are nowhere to be seen because the vast majority of the Russians are homeowners and there is minimal unemployment.
You are willingly ignorant and do not have a clue.
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Macgregor 😂
stolen valor
What would you ever know about valor? You’re a potato.
it’s you I’m concerned with. Very concerned.
Are you threatening me?
and you my friend, are no lady
Capiche?
Well that’s tbeway to diminish the white worldwide population
You’re right, ding dong. I am no Lady
But you are still a potato.
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