That's exactly what it is. Most of the content is made for Ukrainians and if you think they should feel sad seeing Russians dying, you are very mistaken.
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Already more dead than in every other post WW2 conflict combined.
I've hard time believing the KIA number is this low. I would expect it to be well over 100-150k.
Yea, something is off. I have always assumed that Ukraine MoD reported a combined count of killed & injured (taken out of action) Russians, which is over 170k. However we have seen the US and UK intelligence suggesting that number to be around 220k. I see no reason why Ukrainians would report it as lower, it would be higher if anything. I wonder if their MoD reports deaths only there (probably quite inflated number) because I would also expect it to be over 100k.Already more dead than in every other post WW2 conflict combined.
I've hard time believing the KIA number is this low. I would expect it to be well over 100-150k.
I thought "liquidated" was KIA and that's why UA's numbers were controversial as they looked way too high?
I got it from a LawFareBlog article, which was made a few weeks ago, which would've suggested the numbers would've been relatively up to date....or perhaps not.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/bloody-toll-russias-war-ukraine
It is, until one realizes it is part of Putin's strategy to create an illusion of negotiations for the consumption of Russian and European publics, so that it alleviates a bit of pressure back home and dupes Europeans into believing their politicians can resolve the war if they simply negotiated harder. Neither is of course the case since Putin has no plans on leaving Ukraine and the Ukrainians have no plans on ceding any of their territory to a fascist, totalitarian dictator.
Therefore Macron is simply playing the role of the useful idiot.
That's not whataboutism.
Since the very beginning of this war, Macron has shown a strange inclination at offering any kind of off-ramp for Putin any way or another. What advantage is there for France to do that? Another way of spinning the question would be: What is the worst that can happen (from a French perspective) if Russia loses most if not all remnants of their occupation in Ukraine?
What would happen to Putin and to Russia in the event that Ukraine finish the job in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine is not something that anyone should be concerned about at the moment. The energy Armageddon that Russia promised against Europe for supporting Ukraine has not happened at all this winter. Meanwhile, China has been spending their time threatening the EU after Ursula von der Leyen's most recent speech in Brussels. The timing cannot be any poorer for Macron.
Perhaps, but if this was Russia doing it people would be laughing at them for using ancient equipment.
Might as well use it though if needed
Expectations for Russian vs Ukrainian military strength aren't necessarily the same though.
When Russia uses old equipment: Russians are losers on the verge of the defeat.
When Ukraine uses old equipment: Ukrainians are creative and resourceful geniuses for putting old stuff to use.
But I'm not sure of that post about old Soviet weapons used by Ukrainians . Maybe just April fool's joke. Ukrainians supposedly have most modern NATO stuff and all the intelligence that comes with it.
So was USA against Iraq and Afghanistan. Turns out it is hard to defeat those that don't want to be conquered.
The hell does that have to do with using equipment from the 1940s?
If this was the US bringing back M4 Shermans, M24 Chaffees, M41 Walker Bulldogs, M46/M47/M48 Pattons, and M26 Pershings into active service, the memes would be running wild all over the internet at the moment.
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Right...and? It's not. End of the day a fat gun that can shoot 12 miles is better than no gun shooting no miles as long as it doesn't blow up and kill your own men. If they miss with all their shells then they'll be in no worse a position really and they might still demoralise the enemy a bit. It's quite different with ancient tanks that are vulnerable to enemy fire.
You’ve missed the point.
oh please. it's war, not a catwalk.
Except that they don't really. For one reason or another we send them the older models or downgraded ones, and not enough of them. It's a bid sad because if we did send our most modern stuff, a lot of civilian deaths could have been avoided. But I get your overall point. If you laugh at Russians bringing tanks from the museum, Ukrainians using stuff made in 1947 is hardly anything to boast about either (if that tweet is even true). But it shows that both sides are quite desperate and severely lacking more modern weapons.
https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-the-us-sending-downgraded-weaponry-to-ukraine/a-65121120
I don't usually read twitter threads but this one was very interesting.
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You wpuld not get that reliability of products produced nowadays. That's upper echelon quality, nowhere to be found today.
You wpuld not get that reliability of products produced nowadays. That's upper echelon quality, nowhere to be found today.
Alright fella, you bring your musket I'll bring my machine gun and we can have a competition.
April fools day was yesterday?
It was probably like:
"The state duma forces every region to contribute to the special operation. We need to send something, if we don't want to fall out the window!"
"But we're in the middle of nowhere, we don't have anything except horses?"
"Then send them"
It's hard to administer countries that don't want to be conquered. The USA found it fecking easy to invade those countries with their infinitely superior tech though, just have to look at the vastly distorted body count. (And before you think I'm somehow pro war on terror, I think both those invasions were catastrophic and disgraceful mistakes).
Never change.
First guys to be annexed when I played as USSR in hearts of iron. I think its the first time I've seen that name outside of the game.
Seems like you’ve missed the point as well.
Russian author Mikhail Shishkin:
Do dictators and dictatorships breed slave populations or do slave populations breed dictators? Ukraine was able to escape from this hellish circle, to escape from our common, monstrous, bloody past. For this reason it is hated by Russian impostors. A free and democratic Ukraine can serve as an example for the Russian population, which is why it is so important for Putin to destroy you.
In Russia, we had neither de-Stalinisation, nor the Nuremberg trials of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. The result we see: a new dictatorship. A dictatorship, by its very nature, cannot exist without enemies, which means war.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...nian-invasion-anniversary-my-russia-war-peace
Do dictators and dictatorships breed slave populations or do slave populations breed dictators? Ukraine was able to escape from this hellish circle, to escape from our common, monstrous, bloody past. For this reason it is hated by Russian impostors. A free and democratic Ukraine can serve as an example for the Russian population, which is why it is so important for Putin to destroy you.
In Russia, we had neither de-Stalinisation, nor the Nuremberg trials of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. The result we see: a new dictatorship. A dictatorship, by its very nature, cannot exist without enemies, which means war.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...nian-invasion-anniversary-my-russia-war-peace
(: Why mess with perfection?
Just out of curiosity, do you ever challenge your own opinion and try to see things from different perspectives?
All the time my friend. I'm looking at this conflict from Russian perspective.