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White House says Russian casualties ‘stunning’
Breitbart ^ | 05/01/2023 | Ellen Mitchell

Posted on 05/01/2023 5:27:36 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The Biden administration estimates that since December, Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties, including more than 20,000 killed.

Among those killed, nearly half were believed to be soldiers from the private military company Wagner Group, which is heavily involved in the grinding fight for Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, White House national security council spokesman John Kirby said Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: casualties; globalistpropaganda; russian; stunning; whitehouse
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To: CapandBall

“If you don’t let us f___ this a_____, then we’re gonna get our d___s and p____s all covered in s___!”


61 posted on 05/01/2023 8:46:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickfrost1
Remember how Russians saved you from Hitler. During German occupation Poland had been losing about 1 mln people a year.

Of course, Germany might not have been so quick to go into Poland in the first place if Stalin didn't stupidly sign a pact with Hitler.

To me, the best thing that can be said about Russia now is that they are not Communist with a formal plan of Communist Party domination of the world. Any seemingly altruistic acts performed by the USSR were with an eye to taking the territory for themselves and enslaving the people.

https://www.britannica.com/event/German-Soviet-Nonaggression-Pact

The terms of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact were briefly as follows: the two countries agreed not to attack each other, either independently or in conjunction with other powers; not to support any third power that might attack the other party to the pact; to remain in consultation with each other upon questions touching their common interests; not to join any group of powers directly or indirectly threatening one of the two parties; to solve all differences between the two by negotiation or arbitration. The pact was to last for 10 years, with automatic extension for another 5 years unless either party gave notice to terminate it 1 year before its expiration.

To this public pact of nonaggression was appended a secret protocol, also reached on August 23, 1939, which divided the whole of eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. Poland east of the line formed by the Narew, Vistula, and San rivers would fall under the Soviet sphere of influence. The protocol also assigned Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland to the Soviet sphere of influence and, further, broached the subject of the separation of Bessarabia from Romania. A secret supplementary protocol (signed September 28, 1939) clarified the Lithuanian borders. The Polish-German border was also determined, and Bessarabia was assigned to the Soviet sphere of influence. In a third secret protocol (signed January 10, 1941, by Count Friedrich Werner von Schulenberg and Molotov), Germany renounced its claims to portions of Lithuania in return for Soviet payment of a sum agreed upon by the two countries.

62 posted on 05/01/2023 8:54:38 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: nickfrost1

“”” BTW 1,000 tanks are not much in a modern war. Germans had about 5,000 when attacked Soviet Union.”””

Today Poland is allied with Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain and the United States and Finland and a number of the ex-soviet states, and many more nations with Japan among America’s allies while Russia and Ukraine are in a war with each other.

WWII comparisons don’t work well.


63 posted on 05/01/2023 8:57:26 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: rbg81

Russia has a recurring dearth of births in generations since then due to those deaths.

They’re in a slump now.


64 posted on 05/01/2023 9:11:11 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Salvavida

You ever serve in the military? Because nothing you said is backed up from a military standpoint with what Russia has actually done in Ukraine. No successful military plans to leave long trails of its own destroyed equipment and dead soldiers as part of some 5D chess strategy. No successful military fights for months to capture a single city, waiting to start an “offensive”. Remember when the great gameplay was to shut down Ukrainian infrastructure. Especially its power grid. And force them to capitulate during a long and dark winter? How’d that work out? You’re going to learn a very interesting lesson in the coming months about sources you thought were accurate but have been lying to you all along.


65 posted on 05/02/2023 12:31:19 AM PDT by Rokke
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To: nickfrost1

Sherlock, I’m not Polish. We can tell of same story of misery, genocide and mass murder at the hands of the Kremlin for just about any neighbor of Russia.

Nothing is forever in Russia. It will collapse again. Soon. Stop murdering your neighbors and genocidally stealing their children.


66 posted on 05/02/2023 2:25:11 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Mens lives are worth far more than this meat grinder bs globalist ceremomy.”

That’s very true. So why doesn’t Putin leave Ukraine? Why is he bombing cities and targeting civilians? Why does he prioritize killing civilians? Because Putin is carrying out WEF’s campaign of depopulation. It is his only use to the WEF. Klaus’s “Golden boy”.


67 posted on 05/02/2023 2:42:42 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

White House says Russian casualties stunning

Has no concern for all the Chinese men invading our once was border.

Xi much happy

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


68 posted on 05/02/2023 9:24:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: meatloaf

Yeah, that many deaths can’t be a good thing.


69 posted on 05/02/2023 11:11:19 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Justa

Both he and Biden and Zelensky are carrying out the wef/globalist depopulation plans for europe.


70 posted on 05/02/2023 12:18:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Rokke

First Manassas, Custer’s 7th Cav, Pearl Harbor, Savo Island, Market Garden, Afghanistan. We are not immune to mistakes.

Now do some research on Putin addressing the mistake he made. Wrong objective, wrong tactics, and wrong force mix.

Do some more research on how he transformed their military in one year.

Ukraine has no economy. They have no path to win. Period.


71 posted on 05/02/2023 12:19:11 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Rokke

You have no idea what the facts are on the ground, yet you choose to believe the neocon version of events. Then you insult the intelligence of ppl who don’t share your opinions, which says more about you than them.


72 posted on 05/02/2023 3:36:36 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: lodi90

Who cares where those tanks end up? This “war” will be over long before the tanks roll off the production line. It’s not like ordering a Big Mac. 🤣


73 posted on 05/02/2023 3:38:40 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: Salvavida

Firing your commanders every 3-6 months is not reforming your military. It’s rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship. I guess you could call dragging T-55s out of mothballs a bit if a reformation. But moving back to Cold War technology is an odd way to reform.
At this point, the only question is how and when Ukraine makes a move on Crimea.


74 posted on 05/03/2023 6:19:17 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: Prince of Space

I do know the facts on the ground because both the Russians and Ukrainians admit the Russians have ground to a halt in Bahkmut, which is just one of the reasons Putin has given for firing his military leaders. People who really wanted to believe Russia would roll through Ukraine and wrap up their “special military operation” in a matter of weeks, are left over a year later denying the obvious reality that the Russian military performance in Ukraine has been a complete disaster. It’s not an insult to say people like you are completely ignorant about military strategy, if you believe a modern military being forced to dig WW1 style trenches is a sign they are “winning”. People who still think Russia is winning this mess are very much like the Qanon idiots who believe Trump is actually President and the rest of us should “trust the plan”. It’s delusional and it’s sad.


75 posted on 05/03/2023 6:29:33 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Stunning and brave”?

Like Caitlin Jenner?


76 posted on 05/03/2023 6:45:00 PM PDT by x
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