Russia has lost over 900,000 soldiers since February 2022
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Anyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up?
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~58,000
:::Interesting comparison. People cheering on those Russian deaths should also be cheering on those American deaths
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They didn't freely choose to enlist but if you put a gun in my hand and tell me kill that innocent person I will rather shoot the person giving me the order
I think both of you are oversimplifying.
Choice and freedom take on an entirely different meaning when you have a state media bombarding you with anti-Ukraine propaganda 24/7. It's easy for us to say from the sidelines that we'd never get swept up in a war against innocents, but probably a lot of the soldiers have been fully indoctrinated with the idea that Ukraine are a threat to their families. Not to mention they probably now have friends and family who have been killed or wounded in this war.
Putin is the real villain here. He not only started the war, he's the one who has kept it going by his refusal to withdraw troops, silenced political opposition, influenced global politics in his favour by buying elections, and used his subjects as fodder in this pointless war.
It's fucking twisted the amount of suffering one thoroughly evil man can cause.
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They didn't freely choose to enlist but if you put a gun in my hand and tell me kill that innocent person I will rather shoot the person giving me the order
What if I told you they're not an innocent person, they're a Nazi?
And if you refuse to fight Nazis, maybe it's because you're a Nazi yourself, hmm? Maybe we'll investigate you for that, and keep you in prison while we do. And of course we'll be investigating your friends and family to see if there are any Nazis there too.
That's the condensed version, but you get the picture. There's a lot more going on than just "here's a gun, kill them".
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Putin is ok with these numbers, in fact they need to be higher.
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Interesting comparison. People cheering on those Russian deaths should also be cheering on those American deaths
From an odd point of view, I think it's been good that world war 2 happened, so that we lost our grip on a lot of countries. Such as Vietnam.
Can't really say that out loud tho aha
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From an odd point of view, I think it's been good that world war 2 happened, so that we lost our grip on a lot of countries. Such as Vietnam.
Can't really say that out loud tho aha
I don't think your existence depended on your having sex with your wife...
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As always that this topic gets discussed: dead and wounded
Title says "lost". I took that to mean killed.
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I don't think your existence depended on your having sex with your wife...
You might be right.. unless.. time travel 🤨
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They didn't freely choose to enlist but if you put a gun in my hand and tell me kill that innocent person I will rather shoot the person giving me the order
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Lost, huh?
Does that mean casualties? As in, not necessarily deaths?
Russia has lost 1,330 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day alone
I would assume the answer is 'yes.'
Fuck I hate the propaganda reporting on both sides.
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PSA: Losses include dead AND wounded.
If wounded means combat ineffective, I'll take what I can get.
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It's not mere personal gain with Putin. The man has a vision of returning Russia to glorious Soviet Union. Probably felt kicked in the balls when it all fell apart. Remember, he was the head of the KGB, an extraordinarily powerful man.
He likely felt he would quickly crush Ukraine, make them an example, and then move on to other lost, and weaker, countries.
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I'm going against the grain here, but I just think this is really sad. A lot of these people will have been decent people, loved by decent people and some have been brainwashed. It's a horrible, terrible human cost cos of a dictator
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It's not mere personal gain with Putin. The man has a vision of returning Russia to glorious Soviet Union. Probably felt kicked in the balls when it all fell apart. Remember, he was the head of the KGB, an extraordinarily powerful man.
He likely felt he would quickly crush Ukraine, make them an example, and then move on to other lost, and weaker, countries.
When he SU fell apart he was clerk in stasi.
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Putin is ok with these numbers, in fact they need to be higher.
Russia just gained 900,000 eligible women in his eyes.
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Armed only with crutches.
Nah, just pick up the crutches from the last guy that was in there.
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Russia just gained 900,000 eligible women in his eyes.
More mail order bribes incoming.
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The world allowing the few to massacre the many for their personal gain has to be what we reject in the 21st century. We need to start arresting and trying every war monger for the murders they are.
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Putin is ok with these numbers, in fact they need to be higher.
They probably are higher.
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Where is your humanity?
