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If you count the ones in the ground. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Simon Whistler did a pretty good presentation on this just a couple of weeks ago. His writer/researchers did a good job of trying to get to the bottom of these figures through various means.
https://youtu.be/IeB4OLF14lw?si=Meo1ciRQ1jIBOtxQ | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Bro forgets the constant, and rightful, protests during the Vietnam War. We didn't pull out because we were losing, we pulled out because the war became WILDLY unpopular.
Took too long and the U.S shouldn't have invaded at all, but there ya go.
Also, despite the fact that U.S soldiers have undoubtedly committed war crimes like every other army on this planet, they are not systemic. That is to say, you're not gonna see American conscripts raping Russian prisoners, kidnapping children and all the other terrible shit happening over there. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Sure, obsessing over maps is stupid apart from understanding that they reflect the war effort.
But it gave Russia a lot of breathing space to rebuild forces, get an edge over some weapons like glide bombs and more. This, like the fear of escalation and failed deliveries of weapons when they were most needed, will have a long term effect on the war effort. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Here is a Russian propagandists saying two days: [https://x.com/ruinwanderer/status/1622142324015878144](https://x.com/ruinwanderer/status/1622142324015878144)
Luka also said it: [https://x.com/nexta\_tv/status/1498185064617762816](https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1498185064617762816)
Funnily enough, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Milley also said it and he's a US general: [https://www.foxnews.com/us/gen-milley-says-kyiv-could-fall-within-72-hours-if-russia-decides-to-invade-ukraine-sources](https://www.foxnews.com/us/gen-milley-says-kyiv-could-fall-within-72-hours-if-russia-decides-to-invade-ukraine-sources)
There were articles pre-written for what they thought was a swift victory: [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60562240](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60562240)
So people did say it, Putin did expect to invade the whole of Ukraine more or less like he did with Crimea.
If you want to be nitpicky, Putin said two weeks (https://time.com/3259699/putin-boast-kiev-2-weeks/). "There are over 700 000 fighting yet somehow Russia is on year two in your full-on war with NATO on your two-week special military operation" pretty much has the same point and should be repeated and people reminded that the oh-so-powerful military has failed and said military should be embarrassed. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
"Trump is old too" isn't a great argument lol. I'm not arguing we should vote for trump instead.
Can we not just admit an 81 year old man is not a good choice for president? Like I'll be voting for him, but goddamn do I not want to. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Sadly this. The cosmos doesn't care for anything and despite no one knows what will happen after death, I doubt it will be punishment for him. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
With over 500k already dead. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Of course he cares, immensely. Nobody is as terrified of public opinion as a dictator.
The security forces of Russia maintain order by making individual resistance seem futile, which it almost always is, but popular movements of millions of people terrify them.
The organization of the soldier's mothers was banned because it brought attention to the casualties, but if there is a general mobilization the government can't hide the extent of the casualties they are taking in Ukraine, and people will start to turn against the government.
It's the whole reason why they are scrounging up manpower from literally anywhere except ethnic Russian citizens. Wagner, the Chechens, the prisoners, the Chinese mercenaries, the Africans now, literally anything to avoid another mobilization and the ensuing dip in opinion. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Well, Rusians (in Russian, Putin regime context) are just thugs. They don't get the limited resources concept. All their lives - if they need something - they just assault someone to get it. Now they robbed their own country so much, it's too poor for the bandits financial needs. Robbing other countries from the other hand generates further costs. The Russian propaganda all over the world was repeating for the last 2 years - "the Russian resources are UNLIMITED. They have unlimited money cheat, they can produce infinite amount of weapons and ammo." It appears it was a lie that can't be maintained much longer. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
you can't even fulfill your "moral duty" to have empathy for people suffering something you will never have to worry about, what makes you think you would be any different from them? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
>soldiers in 1917 were given absurd amounts of freedoms by the Provisional Government
I assume you're referring to Order Number 1? This was a desperate attempt to stop get soldiers who were already leaving the war in droves, a compromise because the war effort was in shambles. There was no clause in it allowing for soldiers to vote out their officers, though it did give them an excuse to simply muscle them out and/or kill them.
They had many issues well before the Tsar was overthrown that caused soldiers to mutiny and/or dessert. Pointing guns at soldiers telling them to go to the front or get shot, lack of training, lack of supplies, and lack of direction, and huge amounts of casualties, wounded were all characteristic of the Russian army at that time. Many soldiers let themselves be captured by German forces instead of dying in a losing war. By the time of "The Great Retreat" things were so desperate that Nicholas made the fateful decision to dismiss Grand Duke Nikolai and take command of the army himself... They squandered the war well before the revolution.. if it had been more successful its possible the revoution had never taken place to begin with (though many doubt that.. the people were fed up the Tsarist and many argue it was only a matter of time before somebody overthrough them, see 1905).
As far as the Provential government, it simply had no power over these men to stop them from deserting the army nor stopping any of the nationalist uprisings in Ukraine, Finland, Georgia, Albania etc. The revolution was the catalyst for many more soldiers to leave and/or mutiny. Order Number 1 was a desperate attempt by the Soviets to retain discipline and order, get soldiers to return to the barracks.
The Provential Government was paralyzed by the Soviets AND had a bitter struggle amongst themselves on what to do about the war, the constant inflighting between the Menshiviks and Social Revolutionaries (and ofc the Soviets pretty much having all the power but none of the organization) tied their hands as to what should be done about the war. I've read quite a lot about this subject and I didn't find anything that mentioned 'more freedom' as a reason for the mutinies that occured during the brief Kerensky "leadership", less you consider that they simply had more freedom because they no longer had to answer to the Tsar, which was more of a mental thing than anything.
>More often than not in an authoritarian countries loosening restrictions rather than implementing them is often where the real problems begin.
I don't know which ones you're referring to, but in the case of Russia, any freedoms given to the people were either forced upon the government by the people or a compromise to keep them from going full on French Revolution. The Tsar set up the Duma as a quasi-compromise to keep things from getting to out of hand after the 1905 rebellian, but even then kept it from actually doing anything to help the peasents and working class. It could be argued that, if he had allowed for more democratic representation under the Duma hence allowing for a dual-power structure, he wouldn't have been overthrown (though possibly relegated to something like the British Monarchy over time but that's pure speculation). | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
He's wishes he was puttin' it to us but we can all see he's rushin' to make excuses. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
The World : "Hey Russian troops, what are you killing for?"
Russian Troops : " ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Strange flex. "700,000 troops are achieving very little in Ukraine." Biggest Russian export after the war: Anyone left with a brain who wants a better life + women in droves due to the lack of men. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Their central bank rate has been at 16% since the end of 2023 to prop up its value.
And now, after these sanctions, any figures that you Google for USD/Rubble conversion are meaningless because it is all being done OTC. Rates hit 200 to 1 today on OTC markets. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Russia has troops including prison conscripts. US has professional soldiers whose lives are valued as human beings.
These numbers are not directly comparable. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Probably he also counts the dead soldiers | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
In other words Russia have managed to transport themselves back a full century. Well done guys. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
It’s just Igor now | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
If that's true (it is not) then they really fuckin' suck. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
And how many of those are corpses? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
You know what, I'm completely wrong, I read it as you trying to say that anyone who questions these troops or the war in general deserves to be punished. I think I see now that you meant to infer that any normal person could be compelled to fight and that if one of us calling them terrorists were to have a gun to their head that they too could be forced to do the things that were calling them terrorists for. Am I correct? If so then my apologies, I thought you were coming off as someone who supported the invasion and thought all dissenters should be punished. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
>That's not even a devils advocate, that's just solid negotiations.
You're not negotiating shit with putin. He's not giving up his imperial dream. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Need them for all the butt rape they are doing to there own army and prisoners. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
700,000 cannon fodder alcoholics | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Just. go. home. leave the world alone. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
They'd already drawn lines on a map to show who would be administering Germany after the war. The Allies advanced upto that line and stopped.
What would be the point of pushing to Berlin spending lives only to hand it to the Soviets? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
So he's also wrong. Napoleon's Grande Arme was drawn from all of western and Central Europe as well. France and Russia also had about the same populations at the time. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Yea and he is still wrong. Russia and France both had a population of 40 million | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
People who were FORCED into it via a draft are not gonna be as effective as a volunteer force that WANTS to be there. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Since when are capturing two villages considered "results" lmao | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
That’s a weird flex if true | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Perhaps they mean this week coming? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
With those numbers? Nope, it wasn't a big progress in modern times. Medieval times yeah sure. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Well. Cant complain about him sacrificing more russians. Online Gaming was never better since the war. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Oh yeah. But China knows they only hold the country together by being affective governors. That’s hard if they cut themselves off from the two biggest consumers on the planet.
Like Russia they might try for a quick occupation and decapitation strike. Hell they might actually pull it off, but the consequences of fucking it up probably ends with chaos on the mainland. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
I can relate. That's why I use Linux. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
My point was that the USSR, with a population way bigger than Russia alone, didn't outnumber the Axis by that much. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Russia. Stumbling around like a drunk. The “West” standing around watching them embarrass themselves as usual | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
A Russian financial crisis certainly, but not a global one | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Sanctions on the exchange do not change the balance of trade. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Sending them all off to die for no reason at all, the absolute tool.. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
A few more than using the mighty ruble. Quick scramble to the yuan for some stability 🤣. Guess you guys are used to queuing hours for bread | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
I don't know if I'd call a few kilometers here and there with UA running on cob webs 'a lot of progress' | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Ukraine mobilized around 700.000 in the wake of the invasion and has mobilized more since.
The rule of thumb in warfare is that the attacker needs a 3:1 advantage in combat power to be successful.
Russia does not have a significant technological or firepower edge over it's adversary that would boost a 1:1 (roughly speaking)manpower ratio to anything like 3:1.
That means that Russia can only, by it's own admission, create localized superiority in numbers and firepower for short periods of time, before Ukraine shuffles it's manpower around to counter it, or rely on the defenders running out of ammunition and thus suffering a catastrophic drop in combat power.
This very much chimes with what we have been seeing from the frontlines over the last 3-6 months, and means that Russia has no real pathways to victory as long as Ukrainian willingness to defend remains high, and the supply of munitions from abroad does not let up. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Austrian military analyst Reisner (he was pretty spot with every phase of the war so far) estimates around 500k russian personal in the donbas/luhansk area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk7D_TliAuE | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Zulu Dawn comes to mind , yes. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
I don't know if Georgia has a toilet paper crisis or something, but if I had to pay €10+ for a single roll I'd get a newspaper subscription instead. Are you sure about those numbers? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
"The classic Irish delema..... do I eat it now.... or let it ferment, and drink it later" - Mallory Archer | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
All thanks to Chairman Xi asking for a few days delay, so as not to steal all the headlines for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
😭 Still losing miserably, Russian politics are a cesspool. Some of the worst food I ever had was in Moscow. Worst culture, MOST UNFRIENDLY, PHYSICALLY UNATTRACTIVE GENE POOL OF PEOPLE I HAVE EVER HAD THE PLEASURE OF VISITING. So unfriendly and rude and racist and judgemental. MAYBE IF THEY DIDN'T LET ALL OF THE RUSSIANS WITH GOOD GENES DIE IN MEAT GRINDER STYLE ATTACKS SINCE THE EARLY 1900's, RUSSIA WOULD BE A DIFFERENT PLACE. ONLY INBREDS LEFT. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY UPON RUSSIA, BC YALL ARE BEYOND FUCKED IF YOU ALIGN WITH THE FASCIST PUTIN REGIME | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
They got out of fuel. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
"We required more MEAT ! " | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Unfortunately they are making progress week by week. Ukraine has no choice but to keep defending, but it's getting harder and harder due to men shortage. They keep kidnapping people from the streets, this can't be a sign of motivation. And Russia knows this, so they will just keep grinding to the point Ukraine will have to seek and agreement. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Title is misleading, as is the article (which makes me question the source).
What he said was: "In the zone of our special military operation there are almost 700,000" | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Pretty much. It still blows my mind that so much of 21st century European history hinged on such a petty thing. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Actually this part is not. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
> The stigma against mental health is the greatest threat to a soldier in the US military.
During the 1800s the USA lost more officers to dueling than to anything else, which is why they finally banned it. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
One fingertip of dust per day. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Aren't you then officially paying their salary somewhere? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
I’m unsure. That’s a good question. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
No. I'm not just accepting their info likes it's a shitpost. Show me the data flaws, the statistical errors, something besides "We can't trust Ukraine because they hate Russia for kidnapping their children and murdering innocent people over a land grab scheme". | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
I don't support the invasion. I just want people to understand that it's a war between interests and politicians. I hate how people think that I'm pro Russian just because I'm Hungarian. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Abu Gharaib | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Guantamo bay | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Putin is just one dude. Other people's money and assets were seized who can be swayed | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Korean War massacres | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
> You always want to leave an out so they don't feel like there is no option left.
Yeah, this has been the NATO strategy from the get-go. The only issue is leaving an "out" doesn't really do anything if the other guy has no interest in getting out. Putin flew right past all the off-ramps NATO built for him, and has effectively cornered himself into a potential no-win scenario. At this point, NATO doesn't really care about helping Russia find off-ramps anymore, and I can't say I blame them. If Russia wants out, they can figure it out themselves now. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
CCP is Han supremist. No way they the "dirty", from their perspective, their bloodlines as a government program. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
TIL Tucker hasn’t been to an Aldi, or any grocery in Europe. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Apparently medieval military uniforms were pants, but soldiers would tear them apart into skirt like garments because of all the dysentery | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
So no one told me life was gonna be this way...
The stars at night are big and bright...
There was a farmer had a dog and bingo was his name-o B | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Fuk off pedoputin | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
All wars are pointless.
Yet we spend more guaranteed money making more efficient the warfare.
No matter what, it’s two dogs fighting in God’s front yard. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Most of them are contractor. They went to a neighboring country to kill for money. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
That's a pretty big oversimplification that ignores the multiple layers of power and politics in Russia. It's not even about negotiating with Putin directly, but making life uncomfortable enough for Russians with even minimal levels of influence (ie the Oligarchs) that Ukraine and the West can offer them the carrot (assets) in exchange for some service or collaboration. There's tons of room for discussion on what these all look like but if you shut the door on them permanently they stop being an option to exploit. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Lone apc charges through open fields.... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Groceries ARE cheaper. You can buy empty shelf of potatoes for $0.00.
Or empty shelf of pasta for $0.00
Or empty shelf of rice for $0.00 | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
To me, it sounds a ridiculously high number, and also an admission of complete incompetence. He has 700,000 active troops fighting in Ukraine and still can't get to Kyiv after over two years? Operation Iraqi Freedom needed less than three weeks to occupy Baghdad. Before the war started, according to Google Maps, you could drive from Russia to Kyiv in four hours.
Putin says he's got 700,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine and they're still getting nowhere? That's pretty bad. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Well he's not a teenage boy so it's not sex with Putin in the kremlin sex dungeon..... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
You cant just steal some other country's assets. This has nothing to do with what you stated | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
It is ILLEGAL to take Russia assets and give to Ukraine.
OK we're LENDING $50bn of russian assets to Ukraine. At 0% interest. Loan must be paid back in 5000years or we might sue.... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Maybe, maybe not but in the mean time why shut them out of the process entirely? Realistically besides the inner political circle in Moscow, Oligarchs and their ilk hold the second most power in Russia. We can either push them to Putins side because they have nothing to lose or we can try to exploit it. That being said I agree with the overall sentiment that slowballing weapons exports, and military cooperation with our Ukrainian parteners must stop and needs to accelerate for these asset seizures to have an even more pronounced effect. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
You mean the deserters?
Whole family straight to gulag, no lada no potatoes | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
He can't admit that half of them are fighting earthworms now | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Most likely they turn to Putin to work with him. Its nice to think they would have some noble revenge arc against the Russian government but in reality when cornered they will choose the more familiar option of Russia and Putin. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
It'll probably end when the Russian army realizes it's easier to march on Moscow than it is to fight a war of aggression they don't care about | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
There is a 0% chance this is true. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
For real Russia fucking sucks at fighting. They are very good at dying though. So they got that. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Where to get the real euro/ruble conversion? It's been frozen at 100 on Google for past 2 years. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
They could at least train them not to cover the ground directly around their foxholes in trash so any $299 Alibaba drone can spot them from a mile away. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
The effects of asset seizures will no doubt be studied as a case study for future uses, but all these oligarchs who moved still need their money and most of the time they need to utilize some regulated international or dollarized financial system to facilitate such exchange (no doubt theres a thriving underground/black market/criminal financial system being used to go around these) and it is in the interest of Ukrainine the their partners to pursue these. To shut the door on them permanently is short sighted in my opinion, and given the stakes all avenues especially non-violent should and must be pursued. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
700,000, 699,000, 690,000, 689,000 … | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Not a Bonologist, I'm one of the many that thinks he's a sanctimonious prick.
Its TL;DR is that Bono's clapping kills children in Africa and U2 crowds have to tell him to stop causing unnecessary death by the clap. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Imagine that. They hear about Nato boots on the ground with all the aircraft and such provided. They'd rather take their chances with a mutiny | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
And this will continue to be true .. for a little while more. However; if the satellite imagery is to be believed - their 60-70 years of stored armament is running quite low. I'd be surprised if Russia has enough artillery and tanks for more than 6-12 more months.
They have enormous amounts of manpower, and they used to have enormous amounts of hardware. Their hardware, however, is emptying out. At some point, they'll be running low. It'll be very, very interesting to see what happens at that point. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
"Putin said" or "Putin farted" can't see the diference... | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
Putin is now putting convict women on the front lines to fight. I think he lied. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
The world will rejoice when Putin meets his judgement day in front of god, as he is going straight to hell. Hey Vlad, better chill out and enjoy the short time you have left, and repent like a MF! | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-15-06 |
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