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You also don't meet the guy you tried to depose and walk around free for a month after the coup. This is a very special Russian situation.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Or they take all the money then say fuck you like China did.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Russians wear suffering as a badge of honor and see it as the path to some kinda enlightenment. Weird people, always have been.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
The number isn’t only soldiers killed. It’s casualties, so killed and wounded. The number of wounded is usually going to be quite a bit higher than those killed.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Not Russians, Soviets. This includes a lot bigger population. Secondly Afghanistan involved around 1% of total Russian armed forces and 1% of their military budget. Remember soviet space shuttle? The Buran project? It costed soviet union more or less the same amount of money as the whole Afghanistan war. Afghanistan involvement of the USSR is poorly understood in the western population.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Standard for Russia. Historically speak first couple years of war entail heavy losses before they start getting their act together. Hopefully Shogeiu’s replacement is equally as incompetent, but it could be signs they’ll start to be a bit more successful. I say a bit bc they have so many logistical issues it might be too late for them to ever achieve vixtory	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Yes, and hopefully this is the end of Russia or the end can be manufactured soon.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
measurable quality ammo as well. When 7% (hypothetically) of the ammo you send, fouls barrels or misses, or predetonates, or is a dud or goes off in the barrel of your guns.....(maybe idk?)....that's not a good thing.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Only about 21 million or so, according to Statista 2023 numbers. Many of those are not fit for any sort of military duty and would be positively counterproductive. Then again, Pooty's happy to send jailed rapist addicts with hep-C to the frontline. As well, the apparatchik class will not be sent to the front lines - it's almost always the peasant class from central Asia and the rural areas. Send in the apparatchik class, and you get instant revolution, because the Russian "social contract" has always been that if you join the police or bureaucracy you never get sent to war.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
That’s the point. Russia is not a modern society	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Around a million left Russia so there are still 49 million left.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Ahhh okay, I was hoping for more than that. Still it's a huge amount of brain and productivity drain.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Russian society doesn't value life. And if they do, they don't fight for it.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Most of them we’re basically kids who got roped into the whims of a madman	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
The ones who stayed are in the big 2 cities? Those ones are in denial? Very strange but maybe not if they can’t access anything except state tv. You’d think they have VPNs and are somewhat informed.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Didn't they have really bad negative growth even before the war too?	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Who said that?	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
>China is not interested in helping either. For now. As long as things stay as they are, there is no reason for China to put its economy under the risk of sanctions. China is well aware that if Russia falls, that they're going to be next; because we're already targeting them with tariffs and pursuing "de-risking". It would be in China's best strategic interest that Russia stays a problem for the West, for as long as possible.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Very impressive. I didn't know the Russians were so good at dying. They really have it all figured out 🤣	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Plenty of wars are started for strategic reasons, even if there are heavy economic costs. I hope our policymakers aren't banking on China being rational.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Russia has worked this way for many centuries. Count your blessings.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
>That is literally a suicide mission. Which approach, as used by Russian assault groups; IS NOT a suicide mission? I don't see how going in with motorcycles is that much worse than going in with an APC. There's plenty of videos where you get 10+ dead Russians because an APC gets hit by a drone or artillery or something. For a war of attrition, it actually makes more sense for Russia to sacrifice their troops especially if they are low quality, utilizing shitty vehicles rather than expensive vehicles. There's been no situation this war where Russia utilized combined arms effectively, every time they tried that approach they got completely obliterated(Vuhledar was probably the worst).	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
And waste all their stockpiles.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Wow! They killed twice as much as the initial invasion force. Russia's rumored necromancer brigade is truly something.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
I'm not sure they're aware of the losses, they're mushrooms after all.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
From what I heard all the top brass of Wagner did hide their families, but the FSB just went one step down and took the families of all the second rank, put them under the gun and made some phone calls to the convoy - that pretty much stopped it.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Yeah, it makes sense. It says: if you go against me we will leverage everything you love, like, or care about against you, and if you die like an obedient stray dog they'll be ok. If they killed them all anyway the next mutiny just carries on. Its pretty smart to just let it ride. The other people are insignificant beyond the message they send in how you deal with them anyway. Fascinating really, in a dystopian way.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
if i was told i was fighting nazis, i would be willing to accept massive casualties as well. this is why freedom of the press is so incredibly important. the russian people are being manipulated and exploited for the preservation of one man's power fantasy	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
That's because they probably don't know, I don't think they get the same news we get, according to Russian News everything is goin according to plan and is winning.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Or an other explanation is, given the source is from Ukraine, the number is exaggerated?	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
The US stopped violating the human rights of its men by drafting them to non defensive wars but they did set up a system instead where poor whites and minorities needed the GI bill for higher education to get jobs and could get roped in anyway. Which is better but not that much better and certainly not good.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
The numbers game still dont favor Ukraine at all	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
I feel sorry for the Russian rank and file soldiers too. Just a bunch up poor mopes caught up in this meaningless bloodletting. What a tragedy for all involved.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Your point?	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
They literally do just throw bodies... they're using fucking motorcycles with cages and chinese buggies for assaults...	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Year isnt over yet	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
You forget about rule number one of war there are always more Russians. Rule two is, don’t invade Afghanistan.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Thank you Ukrainian MoD for this reliable number	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
The Soviet Union lost 8.8 - 10.7 million service personnel during WWII alone. The fact that there is a 1.9 million error shows their horrifying attitude to loosing military personnel… as they used to say “there are many of us”	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
Jesus Christ Putin is decimating his population. He’s going to be remembered as a mad king.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
Man that would be one hell of a twist	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
What about Ukraine?	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
To Russia, those are rookie numbers compared to WW1 and WW2	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
Like I said, a conventional warfare between proper armies, the advancing side will be exposed to more threats. Just like the Ukraine counter offensive saw massive losses of man power and equipment when encounter Russia defense works. First they say Russian using human waves tactics, but clearly not, they attack in small squads, now they use motorcycles, still the Western media makes fun of it, makes fun of the “turtle tanks” and all. I mean this attitude of downplaying the Russian capabilities isn’t gonna help anybody. Why not look at the war as it is, that both sides are suffering tremendous losses, but Russia has more to give and that’s not a good sign for Ukraine.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
It can be a win-win for the state. Reduce prison costs by reducing prisoners, ideally ones with years if not decades of state-funded imprisonment ahead of them, and supply military with more people for the traditional 'Drown the enemy in blood' tactics. If the prisoners die, the state has saved money on the prison service not only now but for years to come. If they survive then, in theory at least, they have given military value to the state. Sure, some will survive long enough to go free (potentially after being a useless soldier), then will go back to civilisation and commit violent crimes - but that is a calculated risk for the state, the crimes are unlikely to affect important/powerful/wealthy people anyway and they can always be thrown back into prison or the battlefield if needs be.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
What did Ukraine lose?	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
So we're trusting Ukraine numbers ? That's a stupid thing to do	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
Lmao what a load of bullshit math.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-04-06
Probably you havent been following the conflict that closely. Russia has been forcing many people to fight against their will under all kinds of threats. Many of the conscripted are considered dispensable and they are given the most dangerous roles and worst equipment. They likely make up the majority of these casualties. Regular people like you and me. People drafted against their will, away from their families, who had no say in this conflict, used as cannon fodder on the front lines. Families are often kept in the dark about whether their husbands and dads are still alive. Given how Russia has been manning its army, the death tolls on both sides are absolute tragedy. Youre gonna have to work that brain to find a way to root for Ukraine while mourning the innocent human suffering on both sides of the conflict. Welcome to nuance. The world will make a lot more sense now.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-04-06
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Technically it was the diplomatic equivalent of a pinky promise with the UK, that they would let Hong-Kong administer itself for 50 years and a special administrative region to be established. Allegedly, the Chinese agreed to a handover deal with the UK to avoid the Hong Kong economy collapsing. With that time frame, after 2043, the Chinese could abolish it, they just pulled up the schedule 2 decades behind. The Chinese state that the treaty is essentially invalid and spent, while the British argue its still in effect. Realistically China isn't dependant on Hongkong's economy anymore and the UK is even weaker of a world lower than it was in 1997.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Well, with your history of not keeping promises (Hong Kong), it is not Taiwan's fault.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Realistically speaking, The new territories being 75% of Hong-Kong and half it's population means that you could not hand it over and maintain the original Hong-Kong. Practically speaking they didn't not have the military to maintain a British hong-kong so they conceded. Once they conceded, everything else was a matter of time.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
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Don't threaten me with a good time	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
They have Bibi by the balls. His government collapses without their support.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
I’m not sure how much in favor of a ceasefire I am (really depends on the details), but this makes me so much more in favor of it.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
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If the proposal can be carried out in full then that will be wonderful. The only problem is...how many people will believe that will happen as there is bound to factions on both sides that will be more than happy to derail it.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Was this the same plan Biden announced on Friday that was already rejected?	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Yup, and men are getting conscripted in Ukraine and sent to the meat grinder. The calls for equality stop when it comes to war.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
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Yes, it explicitly is. Only direct calls for immediate, illegal violence are banned. Hate speech does not even have a legal definition in the USA.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
George Clooney ages like fine wine holy moly	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Generally these foundations get bigger donations and better funding with a more recognizable name like George Clooney attached.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
One can argue politics all day, but supporting an active enemy like Putin definitely falls under some treasonous shit.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Sadly the CIA would protect the Tuck	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Medvedev is threatening Clooney on X	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
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"We were only following orders!"	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Lenin and Trotsky were busy reconquering everyone who managed to break away from the Russian Empire. "Korenization" and some cultural rights were a bone they threw their subjects to dampen the loss of all other national rights. It was almost fully reverted by early 30s, and the activists (sometimes ardent communists themselves) imprisoned or shot in places like [Sandarmokh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandarmokh). E.g. Ukrainian grammar standard of 1933 deemphasized all the language features Russians couldn't understand/pronounce etc. And then its authors were also all repressed.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
A lot of people in Crimea are ethnic Russians, but a lot of them aren't. Those are the ones targeted by russification policies.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Trump supporters taking notes for what to do to schools the next time around in the USA.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Can Palestine advocates ever understand that not everything is about Palestinian issues?	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
The only positive about this is the constant reminder for decades to come how terrible war is and the expertise and skills to clear the lands is always welcome somewhere else eventually, unfortunately..	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
That was true before 2014. What happen to Tatars, for instance, after land grab… well let's just say that Crimea is a lot more Russian nowadays and how it became that way is how Ukrainians know what Putin has in mind toward their nation.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
The USSR actually dampened Russian imperialism since they at least tried to keep up the appearance of a Union. More traditional Russian imperialism would've made it very clear that it was Russia ruling over its conquered territories. Also considering tankies ignore the fact that the USSR was built on slave labour tells you all you need to know.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
I hate the guy, too, but Obama was in the White House when Crimea was annexed.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
The difference is that nuclear war would happen only if we did something very few people actually wanted to do. Global warming will happen unless we do something very few people actually want to do.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Is Crimea aligned with Russia?	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
[The Day After](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA) \- traumatized an entire generation But also the ludicrous [Red Dawn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZJMZapC8NQ): Wolverines! Cubans! Lol	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Please keep in mind that this only works because the Russians abandon their men, leave them to die, so they’re usually pretty composted by the time Ukrainians get around to burying them, but with Russians, just like any time you’re using raw shit as fertiliser, you do run the risk of burning your plant roots if you plant too soon. We have found that our vegetables and flowers while are initially pretty robust and surprisingly pest resistant whenever we use that mix, it like most free things, does have its drawbacks. We eventually got tired of our vegetables sitting outside screaming they were under attack despite no evidence to support it and things also got pretty annoying when the flowers started blooming and accusing each other of making the others gay. Ultimately we decided to follow the Russian example, found it be mostly useless, and not worth tilling in.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
As a Russian, this is unsurprising. Even before the war and even before the annexation of Crimea, teachers loved flexing their power on students and make them do similar crap. Or maybe it came from even further above, but teachers did not do anything at all against it whatsoever, not even any small acts of resistance. It was "you will go to this patriotic thing" and that's it. My own memory of it was being forced into the Eternal Battalion action (Бессмертный Полк, translation may be not truly correct), which is supposed to be descendants of soldiers or victims of WW2 (though, specifically the USSR/Germany part, no one gave a crap about anything else) carrying portraits of those soldiers and victims. I was given someone's portrait and told to pretend it wasn't just a complete and utter stranger. I understand that a lot of people sacrificed a whole bunch during WW2, including their own lives, but I'm just so sick and tired of this победобесие. It's always "we can repeat that" or "we can strike again" or whatever. It has NEVER been about the immense toll the war had, not even the remembrance of why it happened, it was just this patriotic mindless bullshit.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
I'm sure it ends there, and their family won't be put on some kind of list or something	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
As is tradition for anyone who lived under their rule.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Dude, Threads is way worse. I watched Threads and The Day After in the same week earlier this year.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
While forgetting that Nazi flag was also red.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
Georgian Soviet authorities succeeded in stalling the process of adopting Cyrillic script throughout the 30s. And in the 40s Moscow toned down their Russification attempts, needing non-Russian support for a war again.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
This is also deeply concerning. The problem is that if "the good guys" would apply the exact same tactics of propaganda it wouldn't work, because pettiness and wishing unwell to others is baked into our system. A great critic once said: democracy and freedom are "unnatural" values, this means they need constant work put in, constant education, constant re-evaluation of the good they bring, without that you're left with hateful primal monkeys that just discovered that with a stick in their hand they make the calls. Sad!	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
Ohhhhhh. I totally misread this as “Croatian” and I was very confused.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-03-06
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That’s why for just one year I want USA to give NASA a budget of maybe $200B from the military. In peace years USA can afford to shift the military budget towards NASA. It will do wonders for space exploration	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
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Thats cool	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
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You also get like every past male president	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Given that Bernie Sanders is alive and well, and not even surrounded by armed guards, this is a dumb take	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06
Over 30 candidates across the country murdered during this cycle, I think it’s safe to assume that if a candidate is alive, they are in the good graces.	r/worldnews	comment	r/worldnews	2024-02-06

You also don't meet the guy you tried to depose and walk around free for a month after the coup. This is a very special Russian situation.

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Or they take all the money then say fuck you like China did.

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Russians wear suffering as a badge of honor and see it as the path to some kinda enlightenment. Weird people, always have been.

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The number isn’t only soldiers killed. It’s casualties, so killed and wounded. The number of wounded is usually going to be quite a bit higher than those killed.

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Not Russians, Soviets. This includes a lot bigger population. Secondly Afghanistan involved around 1% of total Russian armed forces and 1% of their military budget. Remember soviet space shuttle? The Buran project? It costed soviet union more or less the same amount of money as the whole Afghanistan war. Afghanistan involvement of the USSR is poorly understood in the western population.

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Standard for Russia. Historically speak first couple years of war entail heavy losses before they start getting their act together. Hopefully Shogeiu’s replacement is equally as incompetent, but it could be signs they’ll start to be a bit more successful. I say a bit bc they have so many logistical issues it might be too late for them to ever achieve vixtory

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2024-02-06

Yes, and hopefully this is the end of Russia or the end can be manufactured soon.

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measurable quality ammo as well. When 7% (hypothetically) of the ammo you send, fouls barrels or misses, or predetonates, or is a dud or goes off in the barrel of your guns.....(maybe idk?)....that's not a good thing.

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Only about 21 million or so, according to Statista 2023 numbers. Many of those are not fit for any sort of military duty and would be positively counterproductive. Then again, Pooty's happy to send jailed rapist addicts with hep-C to the frontline. As well, the apparatchik class will not be sent to the front lines - it's almost always the peasant class from central Asia and the rural areas. Send in the apparatchik class, and you get instant revolution, because the Russian "social contract" has always been that if you join the police or bureaucracy you never get sent to war.

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That’s the point. Russia is not a modern society

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Around a million left Russia so there are still 49 million left.

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Ahhh okay, I was hoping for more than that. Still it's a huge amount of brain and productivity drain.

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Russian society doesn't value life. And if they do, they don't fight for it.

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Most of them we’re basically kids who got roped into the whims of a madman

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The ones who stayed are in the big 2 cities? Those ones are in denial? Very strange but maybe not if they can’t access anything except state tv. You’d think they have VPNs and are somewhat informed.

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Didn't they have really bad negative growth even before the war too?

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Who said that?

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>China is not interested in helping either. For now. As long as things stay as they are, there is no reason for China to put its economy under the risk of sanctions. China is well aware that if Russia falls, that they're going to be next; because we're already targeting them with tariffs and pursuing "de-risking". It would be in China's best strategic interest that Russia stays a problem for the West, for as long as possible.

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Very impressive. I didn't know the Russians were so good at dying. They really have it all figured out 🤣

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Plenty of wars are started for strategic reasons, even if there are heavy economic costs. I hope our policymakers aren't banking on China being rational.

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Russia has worked this way for many centuries. Count your blessings.

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>That is literally a suicide mission. Which approach, as used by Russian assault groups; IS NOT a suicide mission? I don't see how going in with motorcycles is *that* much worse than going in with an APC. There's plenty of videos where you get 10+ dead Russians because an APC gets hit by a drone or artillery or something. For a war of attrition, it actually makes more sense for Russia to sacrifice their troops especially if they are low quality, utilizing shitty vehicles rather than expensive vehicles. There's been no situation this war where Russia utilized combined arms effectively, every time they tried that approach they got completely obliterated(Vuhledar was probably the worst).

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And waste all their stockpiles.

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Wow! They killed twice as much as the initial invasion force. Russia's rumored necromancer brigade is truly something.

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I'm not sure they're aware of the losses, they're mushrooms after all.

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From what I heard all the top brass of Wagner did hide their families, but the FSB just went one step down and took the families of all the second rank, put them under the gun and made some phone calls to the convoy - that pretty much stopped it.

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Yeah, it makes sense. It says: if you go against me we will leverage everything you love, like, or care about against you, and if you die like an obedient stray dog they'll be ok. If they killed them all anyway the next mutiny just carries on. Its pretty smart to just let it ride. The other people are insignificant beyond the message they send in how you deal with them anyway. Fascinating really, in a dystopian way.

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if i was told i was fighting nazis, i would be willing to accept massive casualties as well. this is why freedom of the press is so incredibly important. the russian people are being manipulated and exploited for the preservation of one man's power fantasy

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That's because they probably don't know, I don't think they get the same news we get, according to Russian News everything is goin according to plan and is winning.

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Or an other explanation is, given the source is from Ukraine, the number is exaggerated?

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The US stopped violating the human rights of its men by drafting them to non defensive wars but they did set up a system instead where poor whites and minorities needed the GI bill for higher education to get jobs and could get roped in anyway. Which is better but not that much better and certainly not good.

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The numbers game still dont favor Ukraine at all

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I feel sorry for the Russian rank and file soldiers too. Just a bunch up poor mopes caught up in this meaningless bloodletting. What a tragedy for all involved.

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Your point?

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They literally do just throw bodies... they're using fucking motorcycles with cages and chinese buggies for assaults...

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2024-02-06

Year isnt over yet

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2024-02-06

You forget about rule number one of war there are always more Russians. Rule two is, don’t invade Afghanistan.

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2024-02-06

Thank you Ukrainian MoD for this reliable number

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2024-02-06

The Soviet Union lost 8.8 - 10.7 million service personnel during WWII alone. The fact that there is a 1.9 million error shows their horrifying attitude to loosing military personnel… as they used to say “there are many of us”

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2024-03-06

Jesus Christ Putin is decimating his population. He’s going to be remembered as a mad king.

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2024-03-06

Man that would be one hell of a twist

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2024-03-06

What about Ukraine?

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2024-03-06

To Russia, those are rookie numbers compared to WW1 and WW2

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2024-03-06

Like I said, a conventional warfare between proper armies, the advancing side will be exposed to more threats. Just like the Ukraine counter offensive saw massive losses of man power and equipment when encounter Russia defense works. First they say Russian using human waves tactics, but clearly not, they attack in small squads, now they use motorcycles, still the Western media makes fun of it, makes fun of the “turtle tanks” and all. I mean this attitude of downplaying the Russian capabilities isn’t gonna help anybody. Why not look at the war as it is, that both sides are suffering tremendous losses, but Russia has more to give and that’s not a good sign for Ukraine.

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2024-03-06

It can be a win-win for the state. Reduce prison costs by reducing prisoners, ideally ones with years if not decades of state-funded imprisonment ahead of them, and supply military with more people for the traditional 'Drown the enemy in blood' tactics. If the prisoners die, the state has saved money on the prison service not only now but for years to come. If they survive then, in theory at least, they have given military value to the state. Sure, some will survive long enough to go free (potentially after being a useless soldier), then will go back to civilisation and commit violent crimes - but that is a calculated risk for the state, the crimes are unlikely to affect important/powerful/wealthy people anyway and they can always be thrown back into prison or the battlefield if needs be.

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2024-03-06

What did Ukraine lose?

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2024-03-06

So we're trusting Ukraine numbers ? That's a stupid thing to do

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2024-03-06

Lmao what a load of bullshit math.

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2024-04-06

Probably you havent been following the conflict that closely. Russia has been forcing many people to fight against their will under all kinds of threats. Many of the conscripted are considered dispensable and they are given the most dangerous roles and worst equipment. They likely make up the majority of these casualties. Regular people like you and me. People drafted against their will, away from their families, who had no say in this conflict, used as cannon fodder on the front lines. Families are often kept in the dark about whether their husbands and dads are still alive. Given how Russia has been manning its army, the death tolls on both sides are absolute tragedy. Youre gonna have to work that brain to find a way to root for Ukraine while mourning the innocent human suffering on both sides of the conflict. Welcome to nuance. The world will make a lot more sense now.

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2024-02-06

Technically it was the diplomatic equivalent of a pinky promise with the UK, that they would let Hong-Kong administer itself for 50 years and a special administrative region to be established. Allegedly, the Chinese agreed to a handover deal with the UK to avoid the Hong Kong economy collapsing. With that time frame, after 2043, the Chinese could abolish it, they just pulled up the schedule 2 decades behind. The Chinese state that the treaty is essentially invalid and spent, while the British argue its still in effect. Realistically China isn't dependant on Hongkong's economy anymore and the UK is even weaker of a world lower than it was in 1997.

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2024-02-06

Well, with your history of not keeping promises (Hong Kong), it is not Taiwan's fault.

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2024-02-06

Realistically speaking, The new territories being 75% of Hong-Kong and half it's population means that you could not hand it over and maintain the original Hong-Kong. Practically speaking they didn't not have the military to maintain a British hong-kong so they conceded. Once they conceded, everything else was a matter of time.

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2024-02-06

Don't threaten me with a good time

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2024-02-06

They have Bibi by the balls. His government collapses without their support.

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2024-02-06

I’m not sure how much in favor of a ceasefire I am (really depends on the details), but this makes me so much more in favor of it.

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If the proposal can be carried out in full then that will be wonderful. The only problem is...how many people will believe that will happen as there is bound to factions on both sides that will be more than happy to derail it.

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2024-02-06

Was this the same plan Biden announced on Friday that was already rejected?

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2024-02-06

Yup, and men are getting conscripted in Ukraine and sent to the meat grinder. The calls for equality stop when it comes to war.

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2024-02-06

Yes, it explicitly is. Only direct calls for immediate, illegal violence are banned. Hate speech does not even have a legal definition in the USA.

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2024-02-06

George Clooney ages like fine wine holy moly

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2024-02-06

Generally these foundations get bigger donations and better funding with a more recognizable name like George Clooney attached.

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2024-02-06

One can argue politics all day, but supporting an active enemy like Putin definitely falls under some treasonous shit.

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2024-02-06

Sadly the CIA would protect the Tuck

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2024-02-06

Medvedev is threatening Clooney on X

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2024-03-06

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2024-02-06

"We were only following orders!"

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2024-02-06

Lenin and Trotsky were busy reconquering everyone who managed to break away from the Russian Empire. "Korenization" and some cultural rights were a bone they threw their subjects to dampen the loss of all other national rights. It was almost fully reverted by early 30s, and the activists (sometimes ardent communists themselves) imprisoned or shot in places like [Sandarmokh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandarmokh). E.g. Ukrainian grammar standard of 1933 deemphasized all the language features Russians couldn't understand/pronounce etc. And then its authors were also all repressed.

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2024-02-06

A lot of people in Crimea are ethnic Russians, but a lot of them aren't. Those are the ones targeted by russification policies.

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2024-02-06

Trump supporters taking notes for what to do to schools the next time around in the USA.

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2024-02-06

Can Palestine advocates ever understand that not everything is about Palestinian issues?

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2024-02-06

The only positive about this is the constant reminder for decades to come how terrible war is and the expertise and skills to clear the lands is always welcome somewhere else eventually, unfortunately..

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2024-02-06

That was true before 2014. What happen to Tatars, for instance, after land grab… well let's just say that Crimea is a lot more Russian nowadays and how it became that way is how Ukrainians know what Putin has in mind toward their nation.

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2024-02-06

The USSR actually dampened Russian imperialism since they at least tried to keep up the appearance of a Union. More traditional Russian imperialism would've made it very clear that it was Russia ruling over its conquered territories. Also considering tankies ignore the fact that the USSR was built on slave labour tells you all you need to know.

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2024-02-06

I hate the guy, too, but Obama was in the White House when Crimea was annexed.

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2024-02-06

The difference is that nuclear war would happen only if we did something very few people actually wanted to do. Global warming will happen *unless* we do something very few people actually want to do.

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2024-02-06

Is Crimea aligned with Russia?

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2024-02-06

[The Day After](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA) \- traumatized an entire generation But also the ludicrous [Red Dawn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZJMZapC8NQ): Wolverines! Cubans! Lol

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2024-02-06

Please keep in mind that this only works because the Russians abandon their men, leave them to die, so they’re usually pretty composted by the time Ukrainians get around to burying them, but with Russians, just like any time you’re using raw shit as fertiliser, you do run the risk of burning your plant roots if you plant too soon. We have found that our vegetables and flowers while are initially pretty robust and surprisingly pest resistant whenever we use that mix, it like most free things, does have its drawbacks. We eventually got tired of our vegetables sitting outside screaming they were under attack despite no evidence to support it and things also got pretty annoying when the flowers started blooming and accusing each other of making the others gay. Ultimately we decided to follow the Russian example, found it be mostly useless, and not worth tilling in.

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2024-02-06

As a Russian, this is unsurprising. Even before the war and even before the annexation of Crimea, teachers loved flexing their power on students and make them do similar crap. Or maybe it came from even further above, but teachers did not do anything at all against it whatsoever, not even any small acts of resistance. It was "you will go to this patriotic thing" and that's it. My own memory of it was being forced into the Eternal Battalion action (Бессмертный Полк, translation may be not truly correct), which is supposed to be descendants of soldiers or victims of WW2 (though, specifically the USSR/Germany part, no one gave a crap about anything else) carrying portraits of those soldiers and victims. I was given someone's portrait and told to pretend it wasn't just a complete and utter stranger. I understand that a lot of people sacrificed a whole bunch during WW2, including their own lives, but I'm just so sick and tired of this победобесие. It's always "we can repeat that" or "we can strike again" or whatever. It has NEVER been about the immense toll the war had, not even the remembrance of why it happened, it was just this patriotic mindless bullshit.

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2024-02-06

I'm sure it ends there, and their family won't be put on some kind of list or something

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2024-02-06

As is tradition for anyone who lived under their rule.

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2024-02-06

Dude, Threads is way worse. I watched Threads and The Day After in the same week earlier this year.

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2024-03-06

While forgetting that Nazi flag was also red.

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2024-03-06

Georgian Soviet authorities succeeded in stalling the process of adopting Cyrillic script throughout the 30s. And in the 40s Moscow toned down their Russification attempts, needing non-Russian support for a war again.

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2024-03-06

This is also deeply concerning. The problem is that if "the good guys" would apply the exact same tactics of propaganda it wouldn't work, because pettiness and wishing unwell to others is baked into our system. A great critic once said: democracy and freedom are "unnatural" values, this means they need constant work put in, constant education, constant re-evaluation of the good they bring, without that you're left with hateful primal monkeys that just discovered that with a stick in their hand they make the calls. Sad!

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2024-03-06

Ohhhhhh. I totally misread this as “Croatian” and I was very confused.

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2024-02-06

That’s why for just one year I want USA to give NASA a budget of maybe $200B from the military. In peace years USA can afford to shift the military budget towards NASA. It will do wonders for space exploration

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2024-02-06

Thats cool

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You also get like every past male president

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2024-02-06

Given that Bernie Sanders is alive and well, and not even surrounded by armed guards, this is a dumb take

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2024-02-06

Over 30 candidates across the country murdered during this cycle, I think it’s safe to assume that if a candidate is alive, they are in the good graces.

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