Ukraine’s Top Military Leadership: We Are Starting to Win, Russia Is Starting to Lose
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It's good to remember that a small subset of Ukrainian commanders do see soldiers as mere cannon fodder. Mere 11 years ago, the Ukrainian military was run almost precisely the same way as the Russian one. And many commanders are from before 2014. Many of them have converted to the new ways since 2014, but some haven't. That's a problem that severely hampers Ukraine's recruitment capacity. Still, Ukrainians are a nation that will flex when it needs to. If the Russia starts advancing faster than the 0.7 % of Ukraine's total area in year like they did in 2024, people get more afraid of what is going on and get motivated to join the armed forces.
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If their losses climb back to 1800 per day, meaning 700-ish dead per day, and their population is about 140 000 000, that makes a nice round number of 200 000 days. Or 547 years. However, because the Russia's population is decreasing for reasons anyway, the real number is more like 100-ish years.
BTW, Ukraine has lost on average 64 soldiers per day as dead during these three years. Counting with 40 000 000 inhabitants, that means the last Ukrainian will die on the front in 625 000 days from now. Or 1712 years.
Reading these numbers, keep in mind that they are about dead soldiers, not about losses in manpower. Most of manpower losses come in the form of severe inrecoverable wounds. For Ukraine it's 1:4 or 1:5, so per one dead you have four to five crippled, and for the Russia it's 1:2,5. The Russia has less wounded because so many of their wounded become dead some hours after being wounded. So, the manpower losses are higher in Ukraine, but most of the lost Ukrainian soldiers return to their families, while a huge share of the lost Russian soldiers turn into soil.
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USA has also quite sternly asked Europe to not become a superpower. Their offer has been "we'll handle this superpower stuff on your behalf, you guys keep to yourself."
It's been an agreement between USA and Europe that Europe will not start competing of power with USA. We have more population and a bigger economy than USA, so I'd guess that now that the agreement has ended, we'll have to become what we would already have been for decades if we hadn't been asked not to.
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I've heard this one before. As much as I'd like to believe it...
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The Russian recruitment numbers have dropped off since December. They are losing more people than they have signing up on some days.
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It's propaganda.
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Im afraid this is happening in America
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Pardon my ignorance but how is Ukraine not doing the same thing? Don't they have a smaller population than Russia too?
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How is Russia running out of troops but Ukraine isn't, please explain
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And Ukraine won't?
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They won't get the resupply because the donkey is chasing the carrot. Didn't you read the post?
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That's war, if you don' t like that, perhaps Ukraine shouldn't have been involved in trying to hurt a border nation and allowing NATO inside its borders. FAFO!
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Firstly, that's not certain at all, yet. Secondly "spoiler alert" goes first, you don't write the spoiler then the alert, your inability to understand that says no one should trust anything you say.
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Russia is very very fair to Ukrainians.
They get full citizenship and all social preserved - pensions, medical, dental etc. Palestinians can only dream -
Out of the BRICS nations, the least important is Russia. They have oil and land. And although China gets through a lot of oil, not much if it comes from Russia.
That said, I highly doubt China would invade any part of Russia. They don't need to. Superpowers tend not to poke the others directly.
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Jesus Christ what is this fucking take?
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Or just adequate cover. Or a drone jammer (something which exists and is available to civilians). Or a strategy that doesn't leave your troops milling around in open trenches for weeks at a time. Or a reaper drone flying overhead that detects the signal from smaller civilian quadcopter which then jams the drone, locates it's origin, ID's the operators with thermal vision and lodges a hellfire missile up their ass.
Again, a competent modern military isn't going to be vulnerable to this type of tactic.
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Must be nice in that parallel dimension of yours.
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Sometimes i feel that some commenters have been influenced by the hipnotoad
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Right, that's why they are bombing day care centers?
