They just throw people into the war without planning. They lost that many in the Winter War against Finland which only lasted a little over 3 months: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_W…
Their incompetence is part of what made Hitler think invading the Soviet Union was a good idea
The crazy thing is Ukraine gives very conservative estimates, and people are reprimanded for false claims. They do not take into account how many Russians the Russians kill. They shell their own positions, they execute their wounded, their Akhmat blocking troops kill, they frag their officers and Akhmat, they die doing stupid drunk shit, they get killed by partisans, they get hazed to death, they even eat each other in the trenches... it goes on. You can probably double the Ukraine number.
Soviet war dead in WW2 - including civilians, including non-Russian states - often cited as 27 million. Give or take, that's two decimal orders of magnitude greater than this conflict. My pont: the ability to shock would seem to be a strong function of what seems normal to you based upon what you've seen before.
My personal opinion is that even one death is too many in this case.
If Russia has 3.3 million active and reserve military, that's a nationwide self-inflicted decimation. That's more than 10% of the active military, for sure. At some point, they just run out of warm bodies to throw into the grinder. Or they can't physically transport them all to a place where it would be convenient for Ukraine to kill them.
Trebach
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •They just throw people into the war without planning. They lost that many in the Winter War against Finland which only lasted a little over 3 months: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_W…
Their incompetence is part of what made Hitler think invading the Soviet Union was a good idea
1939–1940 war between the Soviet Union and Finland
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in reply to Trebach • • •@trebach Those number are so insane
All human lives
Cybarbie
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •@anubis2814 Seems a little high but maybe
There are a few projects that keep track of it and also verify as much as possible but so much is incomplete
Polly Marquette
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Soviet war dead in WW2 - including civilians, including non-Russian states - often cited as 27 million. Give or take, that's two decimal orders of magnitude greater than this conflict. My pont: the ability to shock would seem to be a strong function of what seems normal to you based upon what you've seen before.
My personal opinion is that even one death is too many in this case.
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