Russia has lost over 900,000 soldiers since February 2022
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Classism is present in Russia too.
I watched a couple of YouTube videos from a normal guy who lives in Russia talking about what it was actually like to live in Russia around the time that Tucker Carlson did that weird state visit and he peeled back a layer of intentional propaganda that the American journalist was spreading - that Russians are living in some kind of luxury paradise. Sure, everything costs less over there, but people are also paid a lot less too. If you're working class, it's hard to afford enough food to put on the table sometimes. The rich, however, are not hurting for anything and a lot of big brand labels that said they would exit Russia just rebranded themselves or quietly re-entered the market after all the commotion about the war died down.
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But they keep taking land, don't they?
So far all the land they gained was in that territory that they were destabilizing since 2014. They spend thousands of people and all the money to level small towns to the ground, after which Ukranian forces fall back from the rubble, and Russians technically take it. Sometimes they do that several times, because holding a bunch of smoldering derbies is actually hard.
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Source on the refrigerated warehouse? I'm super curious about that.
Hm, cannot find that article anywhere. I found two articles that talk about refrigerated trains bringing bodies there, but they don't tell about the actual morgue at all. They are here:
https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-61567949
All articles I can find about the larger warehouse near Kyiv are from 2022. There are articles telling about swaps of Russian soldiers who have had influential relatives. In 2022 there has been a swap of 50 such soldiers – and the same amount of Ukrainians in the other direction.
Starting from summer 2024, there are suddenly several articles telling about swaps of hundreds of bodies at once, so at that point something has changed. Of course, with the Russia losing 1300 soldiers per day, and therefore about 400 of their soldiers dying per day, swaps of 200 to 600 dead bodies a few times per month are not that very many, really. Even if most of the Russian soldiers die in areas unreachable by Ukrainians, that still seems like a very low number. There is some amount of pressure inside the Russia for getting some of the bodies away from Ukraine, but none of the halfways recent articles tell anything about how many Russian bodies are currently in storage somewhere, waiting for repatriation to the Russia. Based on the amounts of a few hundred at a time, I'd say there must be many that the Russia does not accept. But no information on where in Ukraine they are physically located at the moment. Kind of understandable, because the Russian military could bomb the morgue to get rid of evidence, if they found out where it is.
It is weird that apparently no articles have been written on this subject in the last two years or so!
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There has been no indication that any new NK soldiers have arrived after the initial 12000. That's ten day's worth losses or one month worth Russian army size decrease if you take the Russia's recruitment capacity into account.
When did the NK soldiers come? Four months ago? If so, they have recruited 100 000 to 140 000 Russian soldiers during that time, and the 13 000 NK soldiers are about 10 % atop that number. As they are muchore skilled than Russian soldiers, you'd assume their number is less than the slightly under 10 % you'd otherwise assume.
So, let's guess about 5 % of the current number are NK losses. Possibly less.
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"as a black man" vibes
A residential house in my home town was hit with a rocket today. 88 injured, of them 14 children - a school was nearby. How's your vibing mate?
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Geez man, that really sucks. I'm sorry that's happening to you and your people.
Thank you. News are bad today
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A residential house in my home town was hit with a rocket today. 88 injured, of them 14 children - a school was nearby. How's your vibing mate?
Then you woke up
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Russia had already invaded in 2014, and successfully got a puppet as president in 2010.
NATO doesn't expand by conquest, countries choose freely to join and other countries (especially hostile ones) don't get to dictate the alliances of their neighbours.
Yeah, Nato is such a saint entity who 'freely' bombs Yugoslavia and Libya.
Nato's whole purpose is to deter Russia and will not stop until whole east Europe is pointing missiles at it. Do you believe that's a 'random freely admittance' policy?
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Yeah, Nato is such a saint entity who 'freely' bombs Yugoslavia and Libya.
Nato's whole purpose is to deter Russia and will not stop until whole east Europe is pointing missiles at it. Do you believe that's a 'random freely admittance' policy?
Yes the whole point of a DEFENSIVE alliance is to defend against a known aggressor, thank you for clarifying
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Yes the whole point of a DEFENSIVE alliance is to defend against a known aggressor, thank you for clarifying
So you bought the russian bad, american good story? So naive. Look how that ends for Ukraine now.
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does ukraine actually have resources? russia is gigantic what could they possibly need so badly
