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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by PITBOSS, Jan 21, 2022.

  1. Donzo

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    rusian's getting slaughtered!

     
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  2. duggers_dad

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    Ukrainian casualties between 5 million and 10 million. This would include hundreds of thousands of American, British and Polish mercenaries.
     
  3. chemgator

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    The total number of foreign fighters fighting for Ukraine has totaled about 20-30,000 over the last 3.5 years. Anyone who tells you there have been hundreds of thousands of casualties of foreigners fighting for Ukraine is batsh!t insane, and probably a Kremlin-sponsored clown.

    Also, no way that Ukraine has more than a million casualties, even including all of the children bombed in schools. Civilian casualties in the worst month of the war were 1,575. Multiple by 41 months, and that's a maximum of 64,000 (the real number is probably half that). The Brits estimate that Ukrainian military casualties total less than 400,000. Nowhere near a million casualties, much less a demented estimate of 5-10 million. Russia is the only country in this war that has had a million casualties. Once again, anyone who tells you otherwise without any proof is a Kremlin clown.

    One million and counting: Russian casualties hit milestone in Ukraine war

    By the way, the total population of Ukraine is 33 million (March, 2025). If they had 10 million people killed in the war, then they originally had 43 million, and lost a quarter of the population. Presumably, almost all of those lost would be fighting age males. Subtract the females, and the remainder of the population would be children and elderly men. Anyone who tells you that Ukraine lost 5-10 million soldiers in this war is also telling you that Russia is losing a war to children and elderly men. Pathetic.
     
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  4. duggers_dad

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    I’m actually leaning to 15 million Ukrainian casualties and upwards of one million Americans dead.

    Don’t ask me for a respectable source or rigorous documentation. They aren’t required where Russian casualties are in view.
     
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    Trump administration showing flexibility …

     
  6. Donzo

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    There is a term Western governments and media use to describe losing territory day after day, week after week, month after month …

    “stalemate”
     
  8. chemgator

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    Another 91 years, and Putin will take all of Ukraine at the rate he's going, unless he runs out of money first.
     
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    Or the Collective West proxy collapses.
     
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    NCR
     
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  11. duggers_dad

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    Upwards of two-thirds of Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck.

    Also, Aeroflot is struggling.
     
  12. chemgator

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    And yet, practically all Americans can afford eggs, potatoes and onions. The same can't be said about Russians. I wonder what their problem is.
     
  13. chemgator

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    Our Russian cheerleaders better hope this news doesn't get out: Russian soldiers returning from the front (usually with a bag of cash) are being robbed. Sometimes by police, sometimes by Russian government officials, and sometimes by taxi drivers.

    Russian soldiers scammed and robbed of war cash on return from Ukraine

    No wonder Russian troops don't fight very well. They probably know that they are going to be robbed before they get home.
     
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    Some excellent discussion here on Russia’s growing economic problems and why Russia is throwing so much effort at terrible cost into capturing a town that no longer holds the strategic value it did a year ago.
     
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    Various Ukrainian strongholds have great strategic value.

    Until they are overrun and said never to have had great strategic value.
     
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