Posted on 03/03/2024 3:53:33 PM PST by Apparatchik
“BeauBo does not mention Russia collapsing, that’s your conjecture.”
I didn’t say specifically one person, many here have been saying it. As for the conquering Europe bit, talk is cheap. Saying it doesn’t make it so. They can’t do it and they know it, or they would have tried.
The implication is that these casualties were caused by Ukraine’s military. 29,000+/- casualties in a month is a lot, even for Ukraine itself, who by all reports are in disarray at best.
You think Russia is a menace? Get your ass out of your computer chair and over to Ukraine and fight the Russians yourself or demand your prime minister declare war on Russia and send in Canadian troops to do so. Stop pestering us to do so.
What about that you understand?
I don’t agree with the bot propaganda here but I do think February was not Russia best month
They just missed a great moment to encircle last week
Throughout this war of blood money and lies Russia has given some casualty figures
Ukraine almost none
Beyond that nobody knows honestly
Given size and arms especially artillery and air superiority on Russian side it’s logical to assume Ukraine has lost more
Unless the Russians are all drunk and Ukraine is led by Thomas Jacksons and Pattons
Pffft! Pansies.
“You just said that a pro-Russia source would be credible; implying that a source that is not pro-Russia is not credible.”
Becomes credible when both sides agree, although Russian sources are about 90% reliable and Western sources closer to 25%.
The collapse of the 1st Guards Tank Army, in their chaotic retreat from Kharkiv Oblast, was the worst Russian military defeat since WWII.
The total losses in Ukraine since 2022, are by far Russia’s biggest military losses since WWII.
You can’t have it any other way, they are simply facts.
Putin did that.
Yes, the first attack failed, so they changed the strategy. Now it’s an attritional battle that they are more likely to prevail in than Ukraine. I’m not denying they’re taking big losses. It seems that they’re willing to risk it as they haven’t withdrawn or asked for a ceasefire. There’s no way for Ukraine to win that kind of war unless NATO (meaning the USA) intervenes.
There is a way for Russia to punch themselves out, so that they do not pose a threat to others for a long time - expend their old Soviet arsenals, and impoverish themselves so they cannot afford a big military build up for ten or twenty years.
They are well down that road in Ukraine. NATO is getting Russia demilitarized for pennies on the dollar, relative to the cost of doing it in a direct war with Russia. Putin can’t disengage from that tar baby, and we can rope-a-dope him along, until Poland is a greater conventional military power than what is left of Russian forces.
“expend their old Soviet arsenals, and impoverish themselves so they cannot afford a big military build up for ten or twenty years.”
We’re doing this to ourselves too, expending our arsenals, and we’re piling up huge debt doing it. Pennies on the dollar? I wouldn’t call $60 billion “pennies”. I think you’re another foreigner warmongering for us to get involved.
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