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since the beginning of this “3 day operation” they’ve lost 1.4 million soldiers. They have an estimated population of like 140million. They can throw a few more million at this thing and likely will. I just don’t feel the typical ruskie tactic of “throwing enough bodies at something until it goes away” is going to work this time. I mean it clearly isn’t working.
The literal definition of “war of attrition”
I would take those numbers with a grain of salt but russia the agressor is definitely struggling
For context, about 55,000 American troops died in Vietnam over about 12-15 years. Russia lost 40,000 in a single month, and they’ve lost well over a million in just a couple years.
That’s the definition of a Meat Grinder War.
It really is an incomprehensible loss, there are voids now in russian society that will never be filled in, missing lifetimes piled up in ghostly stacks, and there are the innumerable international connections russia has destroyed from crudely extracting human bodies to use as grunts on the frontline that don’t know they are being sent there until the last moment…
Which isn’t to dwell on the tragedy of russians, they can stop this war at any time and yet they fight on like cowards devoted to licking the boot until the very end… it is rather to point out the scale of human loss here is solemn.
The title of this article is bad. Further down they reference that ISW estimates 40,000 casualties for June. So killed and wounded. Still horrific, but even with Russia’s atrocious killed to wounded ratio more like 10-20k killed.
Recent statement of Rubio was that Russia now has more killed than wounded. That would mean they are down to not even pre-WW1 but medieval casualty levels. And its not unlikely as their casualties would be on the offensive infiltration operations where there’s no chance of evacuation. - As per Perun.
I’ve had this sense building for a while that the world is returning to medieval times. Or that, that’s what the powerful people in control everywhere want to happen to normal people while they control all the tech and everything. I hope I’m wrong. But all it would really take is one big grid failure the world over. One big solar flare from the sun. It’s probably an outlandish feeling but eh.
40k you say?!?!? (Im sorry i know the way to hell already, i’ll see myself out)
observers suggest 1.4 million Russian soldiers have been killed since the war began
What a terrible article. It’s 1.4 million casualties. Also russian deaths in June is very high (26k), but not 40k. Again, those are casualties.
