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HAS UKRAINE’S ARMY BEEN REDUCED BY ALMOST 50%?
Sonar 21 ^ | 30 November 2022 | Larry Johnson

Posted on 12/01/2022 9:34:55 AM PST by Kazan

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To: cranked

Yes. She said 100,000 officers. There are not and never have been 100,000 officers in Ukraine. The Tass (Russian propaganda office) article only mentions “hundreds of thousands of dead,” with no distinction between Ukrainian and Russian, Civilian or Combat.

The t.me is in Russian. Oops. You let your nationality show.

The American Conservative cites Mark Slebowda in turn citing a Russian claim of 100,000 casualties, which means injured or killed, not killed, which the American Conservative shamefully mistakes as 100,000 dead, which it in turn extrapolates to mean 400,000 casualties. (Seriously AC? This is perhaps the dumbest thing you’ve ever done!)

Then another Russian site.

Then a Rumble conspiracy-peddling site which claims that NATO is using war with Russia to depopulate Ukraine so it can create a new Israeli state.

And then a source which doesn’t say anythng like what you claim it says.


41 posted on 12/01/2022 12:05:08 PM PST by dangus
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To: EEGator; cranked

42 posted on 12/01/2022 12:05:35 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

That moment that the US and NATO realized backing Ukraine was an utter mistake....

US/NATOs So Sexy Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Cg6fKOy_eE

Utterly hilarious and watch it with sound on!


43 posted on 12/01/2022 12:07:26 PM PST by cranked
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To: dangus

I have studied several languages, including Spanish, Russian and German.

“Officer” is a typical translation mistake. In different languages it can mean police, military officer, or “official” in the sense of “official” military compared to “unofficial” militia.

I’d be intrigued to know the background of the translation. My guess is the meaning or intent was “official soldiers.”

JFK’s translator had him say, “I am a jelly donut!” in Berlin.

Carter’s translator had him say, “I make love to the Polish people.”


44 posted on 12/01/2022 12:10:38 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: cranked

Thanks, also see 44.


45 posted on 12/01/2022 12:11:02 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

“JFK’s translator had him say, “I am a jelly donut!” in Berlin.

Carter’s translator had him say, “I make love to the Polish people.””

LMAO!


46 posted on 12/01/2022 12:12:31 PM PST by cranked
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To: Kazan

How many ways are you guys going to post this article?

We used to have moderators to delete duplicates.


47 posted on 12/01/2022 12:13:04 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: cranked

I think “100,000 officers” was a similar semantical error by her German-first-language ‘terp.


48 posted on 12/01/2022 12:14:08 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Vermont Lt

First time I saw it.


49 posted on 12/01/2022 12:14:39 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Personally, Der Fuhrer wannabe UrsalaIdiot simply spout conservative estimates that which Col. MacGregor and others have long asserted, as well as various media sources.

Key words being ‘conservative estimates.’

I, as others, believe the numbers are higher, much higher.


50 posted on 12/01/2022 12:17:22 PM PST by cranked
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To: Vermont Lt

“How many ways are you guys going to post this article?
We used to have moderators to delete duplicates.”

FR Search under Ukraine and let me know where the moderators were when the a-typical FR propaganda peddlers were slamming article after article after article, day after day after day after day after day on Kherson, Crimea Bridge and other PR victories....and no mention from you on them duplicate threads by FR moderators. Ironic huh?


51 posted on 12/01/2022 12:20:17 PM PST by cranked
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To: Timber Rattler

Going back to the original invasion, has Larry Johnson been correct on anything he has said?


52 posted on 12/01/2022 12:25:07 PM PST by jps098
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“... has Larry Johnson been correct on anything he has said?”

Has anything he said been refuted?


53 posted on 12/01/2022 12:26:27 PM PST by cranked
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To: Travis McGee

Well, we now know for certain (i.e., from the horse’s mouth) what the error was: she mistranslated “official” as “officer” but she also mistranslated “casualty” as “killed.”

So, she meant to say that there have been 100,000 casualties in Ukraine, which probably translates to about 25,000 killed, whch is higher than claimed by Ukraine, but way more likely than 100,000 dead.


54 posted on 12/01/2022 12:28:06 PM PST by dangus
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To: Salohcin
No, the most likely explanation is she was trying to demonize Russia and the truth slipped out.

But, neocons don't give a damn how many Ukrainians die or how much Ukraine shrinks.

55 posted on 12/01/2022 12:31:51 PM PST by Kazan
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To: only1percent
Russia may be closer.

Only if you believe the propaganda of the Biden regime and Deep State, which has repeatedly proven to be nonsense.

56 posted on 12/01/2022 12:32:56 PM PST by Kazan
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To: cranked

“The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What’s Left Is Mop-Up” This was in March 2022.


57 posted on 12/01/2022 12:33:06 PM PST by jps098
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To: jps098

That don’t indicate shat to me.

Show me where it has been conclusively proven that anything he has said, speculated, etc. has been again, was conclusively proven wrong.


58 posted on 12/01/2022 12:34:51 PM PST by cranked
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To: dangus
You damn well she meant 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers because that is what she was told.

You can come up with all the spin you like, that is a realistic, probably low, number.

Pretending Ukrainians are dying in horrific numbers and could win a war when Russia owns the air space and when Ukraine's electric grid is on the verge of collapse is nothing than delusional or evil.

59 posted on 12/01/2022 12:38:03 PM PST by Kazan
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To: cranked

I agree. It’s a way low-ball KIA number.

Especially when you don’t need to pay benefits to the survivors of the MIAs, aka dead in stupid bonsai attacks against artillery, bodies never recovered.

Often decently buried by the “Russian Orcs.” And when discovered interred beneath wooden crosses, counted as a “Russian massacre.”


60 posted on 12/01/2022 12:41:53 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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