InverseParallax@lemmy.world
on 22 Mar 04:06
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Needs more zeroes.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
on 21 Mar 20:16
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Fuckem.
_druid@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Mar 20:25
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You have more in common with those soldiers than you do with the warpigs pulling the strings that led them to their deaths.
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Mar 20:37
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So⊠You have a lot of common with people who are ready to go kill in exchange for money?
Oh wowzies.
Also what a damn bad dichotomy: either side with killers for money or those who pay them to kill.
For once, a normal human being will not side with either of.
edit: oh keep them downvotes coming, keep yourself counting all yâall who think killing for money is ok ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
on 21 Mar 20:44
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You mean the 18-30 y/o men who are conscripted into compulsory military service for a year? Kinda sounds like a lot of them might not have much choice, barring gulag or suicide, in the matter.
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Mar 20:45
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Ah welcome to your private fantasy land. Enjoy it.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
on 21 Mar 20:56
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I just believe the righteous antipathy is better leveled at the Russian government, specifically Putin, than the anonymous cannon fodder.
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Mar 23:02
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I prefer to hate everyone willing to kill me, my friends, my family, take over my country equally. Especially so, if they do it for money, for ten years.
Hard to grasp such a complex concept, I understand.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
on 21 Mar 23:56
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I can understand why you feel the way you do and cannot dispute it is a hatred youâve earned.
Just like I wouldnât be able to blame any Canadian for hating every US soldier if the US were to invade Canada.
I personally feel bad for every person involved in something as horrible as fighting in a war. I wish their hearts, brains, and energies could instead be employed in something peaceful, helpful, and beneficial for the future.
I live in Finland, where about five percent of the people are Russian-speakers. Half from the Russia, the other half from Baltics.
My image of them has changed dramatically since 2022. Iâve had a job where I encounter a lot of different low-educated workers, and that has a included several tens of Russian-speakers. There has been precisely one among them that has not been repeating Putinâs talking points.
Nowadays I try to steer clear of everyone with a Russian name because I donât want to ruin my workday. When they hear that Iâve lived some time in Ukraine, the war easily comes up. And then does the propaganda.
Having this experience has been something I really wouldnât have wanted to have. I have indeed met Russians who are decent people. But, all of them have received other citizenships already years ago, because if you donât believe the Russian propaganda, you see what a horrible country it is, and want nothing to do with it.
If someone has not left the Russia by 2025, they have a reason for that. They stand for Putinâs fascism.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
on 23 Mar 17:38
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Thank you for sharing your personal observations and experiences. They sound even more insufferable and dangerous than MAGAsites in the US.
tbf, most Russian conscripts are not involved in the war - men sign theoretically voluntary contracts in exchange for extra pay or reduced service time to be deployed outside of Russia.
That being said, thereâs a great deal of coercion thatâs involved, so while you can resist pressure to sign a contract, itâs not unreasonable to think that a significant minority felt they really didnât have a choice.
faultywalnut@lemmy.world
on 21 Mar 20:45
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For a lot of people, yeah actually. Itâs all relative to each countryâs general economy and propaganda, but there are a lot of people around the world either already in the military willing to die or kill for their country because of patriotism or feeling like thereâs no other career paths for them, or that would take up the call if conscripted by their country.
Then think about how hitmen, assassins, sicarios and those type of criminals are usually from poverty or lower class and just regular people that descended into a life of crime and kill for money. Yeah, I think itâs actually quite common for regular folk to be killing others for money unfortunately.
_druid@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Mar 20:49
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Some they do, but actually most they donât.
The casualty rate is about 40 000 per month, meaning that there are about 25 000 cripples per month. The Russian recruitment capacity is about 25 000 to 35 000 per month depending on the source, so there should be about one cripple for one four-limbed soldier if all of the cripples were sent to the front. In reality, their number is a tiny fraction of that, as we can see in the videos.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
on 23 Mar 17:23
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The fact they are doing it and there is footage of it is funny lmao
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
on 22 Mar 04:20
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Russians donât really defect. They are told that Ukrainians will torture them for fun if they are caught alive and then kill each one, so it looks for them as if a 99% chance of dying on the field is still better chance than 100% chance of torture and then death anyway.
And because the Russian soldiers honestly believe this is how Ukrainians behave, they do that very thing to Ukrainians âin revengeâ.
If they defect to the rear, they are shot by kadyrovite sheep enthusiasts.
So, whether the number includes defects is largely irrelevant. Maybe they do, maybe they donât, but that wonât affect the numbers even by a tenth of a percent.
Yeah, but letâs keep hating every russian, because they âfreely choose to enlistâ and invade other countries. They love being shelled by Nato artillery đ„°
Russian soldiers are mostly not conscripted, but enlist because the salary of a factory worker in a rural town is around 70 ⏠per month, whereas the salary of a soldier is about 2000 ⏠per day, which means a monthly salary each day, including weekends.
They go killing because they are okay to kill others in order to get a richer life for their family. And thatâs not an okay reason. They have chosen their fate and deserve death.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
on 22 Mar 10:25
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They didnât freely choose to enlist but if you put a gun in my hand and tell me kill that innocent person I will rather shoot the person giving me the order
te_abstract_art@lemmy.world
on 22 Mar 11:48
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I think both of you are oversimplifying.
Choice and freedom take on an entirely different meaning when you have a state media bombarding you with anti-Ukraine propaganda 24/7. Itâs easy for us to say from the sidelines that weâd never get swept up in a war against innocents, but probably a lot of the soldiers have been fully indoctrinated with the idea that Ukraine are a threat to their families. Not to mention they probably now have friends and family who have been killed or wounded in this war.
Putin is the real villain here. He not only started the war, heâs the one who has kept it going by his refusal to withdraw troops, silenced political opposition, lied to his population, influenced global politics in his favour by buying elections, and used his subjects as fodder in this pointless war.
Itâs fucking twisted the amount of suffering one thoroughly evil man can cause.
Well, now you are oversimplifying world politics to one manâs deeds. As if Nato expansionism did not play any role in the creation of this conflict. Read a little history before 2023 and youâll see acquiring Ukraine is been a race between Nato and Russia since at least 2014.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
on 23 Mar 18:25
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Russia had already invaded in 2014, and successfully got a puppet as president in 2010.
NATO doesnât expand by conquest, countries choose freely to join and other countries (especially hostile ones) donât get to dictate the alliances of their neighbours.
Yeah, Nato is such a saint entity who âfreelyâ bombs Yugoslavia and Libya.
Natoâs whole purpose is to deter Russia and will not stop until whole east Europe is pointing missiles at it. Do you believe thatâs a ârandom freely admittanceâ policy?
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
on 24 Mar 20:20
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Yes the whole point of a DEFENSIVE alliance is to defend against a known aggressor, thank you for clarifying
What if I told you theyâre not an innocent person, theyâre a Nazi?
And if you refuse to fight Nazis, maybe itâs because youâre a Nazi yourself, hmm? Maybe weâll investigate you for that, and keep you in prison while we do. And of course weâll be investigating your friends and family to see if there are any Nazis there too.
Thatâs the condensed version, but you get the picture. Thereâs a lot more going on than just âhereâs a gun, kill themâ.
Exactly. But itâs just easier to plain hate than to understand.
SenorBlanco@sh.itjust.works
on 22 Mar 15:09
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They were probably told Ukrain had Weapons of Mass Destruction, and so itâs their DUTY as defenders of freedom to invade and stop these terrorists! ⊠oh, wait
Easier to say than to do. But for the âinnocent victimâ case you should look instead at Israel. Thatâs where the innocents are killed by en mass by direct order.
Itâs not mere personal gain with Putin. The man has a vision of returning Russia to glorious Soviet Union. Probably felt kicked in the balls when it all fell apart. Remember, he was the head of the KGB, an extraordinarily powerful man. Maybe even more powerful than the Premier? Dunno.
He likely felt he would quickly crush Ukraine, make them an example, and then move on to other lost, and weaker, countries.
He was never the head of KGB. He was planted as the prime minister by KGB precisely because the big guys at KGB believed they could control him when the prime minister becomes a president by the president resigning.
The other important people in KGB would never have allowed for the head of the KGB to become the president if the Russia, because they were his competitors.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
on 21 Mar 20:33
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Anyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up?
Tap for spoiler
~58,000
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world
on 21 Mar 20:44
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Plus about 300k âcasualtiesâ, which is more apples to apples with the 900k Russians.
They donât count as military losses. This isnât a statistic about Russian suffering. This a statistic about how many soldiers the Russian military has lost from its ranks. PTSD doesnât remove a soldier from the ranks.
Iâll be honest: I know next to nothing about the Vietnam War, living in Germany. We just read Slaughterhouse 5 in our English class and thatâs it. Given its omnipresence in culture in general, I never would have thought that so âfewâ people died. Donât get me wrong - itâs still a lot of people. But compared to the 900000 itâs just a drop in the bucket.
Fuck Putin and what heâs doing to my fellow countrymen/women/people
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.world
on 22 Mar 00:11
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Most of those killed in Vietnam were Vietnamese civilians
If you looked at the news article, the spokesman for the Kremlin mentioned that it was what the parents had âwanted and requestedâ which makes it look more like the parents taking a subtle jab at the leadership because they then had to publically hand them out.
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macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world
on 22 Mar 01:44
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The total number is not what you should be looking at. The interesting thing is the number of losses in proportion to the Russian recruitment capacity. They have recruitment infrastructure that enables them to recruit a maximum of 35 000 (or, according to some sources, just 25 000) soldiers per month. They are not able to restructure their recruitment procedures in wartime, as that would first decrease the recruitment capacity for a few years.
The Russia must get their losses under that number, because as long as they donât, they wonât be able to train their soldiers â they are needed too acutely at the front for that. If they can train their soldiers, their daily losses will decrease a lot.
Neither side is going to run out of population to send to the front in the next 50 years. But they can lose them faster than they are able to recruit new ones.
There has been no indication that any new NK soldiers have arrived after the initial 12000. Thatâs ten dayâs worth losses or one month worth Russian army size decrease if you take the Russiaâs recruitment capacity into account.
When did the NK soldiers come? Four months ago? If so, they have recruited 100 000 to 140 000 Russian soldiers during that time, and the 13 000 NK soldiers are about 10 % atop that number. As they are muchore skilled than Russian soldiers, youâd assume their number is less than the slightly under 10 % youâd otherwise assume.
So, letâs guess about 5 % of the current number are NK losses. Possibly less.
RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world
on 24 Mar 01:51
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Iâm honestly surprised they havenât pushed for more of them but I guess they canât maintain their hold on their borders if they sent too many soldiers.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml
on 22 Mar 03:48
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I find this difficult to believe.
Edit: Wikipedia has a total (both sides) death toll of 160k-290k.
Many do. But, in military purposes, it is not really relevant whether your army loses a soldier through death or through a severe permanent wound. He is still a soldier that you cannot use at the front.
Itâs a standard practice to count the dead and permanently wounded in the same number, because thatâs what is militarily relevant.
There are also slight wounds, which number at around 10 000 per day on average (according to a Russian source that I read two-three days ago). Remember that this number includes everything, including getting a paper cut in your finger, so the same person can end up in that number several times per month.
The number of Russian military losses consists of wounded by a bit under â of the number. The wound gets included in the number only if its severe enough to permanently remove you from the front.
This is a war fought against humanity. Ukraineâs strategy is to keep Russian losses at or above the Russian recruitment capacity. If the Russian losses descend under 25 000 per month, they can first fill their ranks, and when thatâs done, start actually training their soldiers, which would change the course of the war.
If there are less than about a thousand Russia military losses per day, then humanity is in danger in large regions.
About 600 000 of those 900 000 are permanently crippled instead of dead. Those who already were married donât produce a eligible woman for Putin, but of course in the Russian atmosphere you wonât find a woman if your number of limbs is less than four.
Lost means ânot able to fightâ. If they lose a leg, they might be alive, but not very useful in the battlefield. Therefore the soldier, not the human, is lost.
Most of it itâs because in military setting, those two are equivalent, sine the only thing they care is about how many abled bodies they have available for the meat grinder.
Propaganda is writing 0.99 with the intention of tricking people into buying. Note here to purpose of writing 99 is used.
Casualties was born from the necessity of generals to know how many troops are available. There is no psychological trick in there. Just because civilians misinterpret it does not mean there is a propagandistic goal hidden somewhere.
Typically in wars itâs about one sixth, and that is also approximately Ukraineâs ratio as well. For the Russia the number is very different because they donât care for their wounded â many of the wounded are converted to dead through inexistence of medical care.
So, 900 000 Russian losses equals a bit over 300 000 dead orcs/roaches/whateveryoucallthem.
The thing is, for the war it doesnât really have much meaning whether the loss is through death or a serious wound. Itâs one soldier less all the same.
The thing is, for the war it doesnât really have much meaning whether the loss is through death or a serious wound.
Not true. A soldier thatâs killed isnât going back home to his family. Heâll never have kids. Heâll never contribute to the economy ever again.
Trying to say kills donât matter in a war is retarded.
But, that depends on who is using the numbers. For immediate military use it is not important what happens after the war. For the general who is planning a war strategy, what matters is how much the army is losing manpower. For the society it does matter whether the lost manpower is dead or just missing one arm, but for the war strategy it doesnât.
Albeit, I do somewhat disagree with this myself. I keep arguing that although the total military losses of Ukraine are close to those of the Russia, it makes a huge difference that the number of dead soldiers is smaller even in proportion to Ukraineâs population than the number of dead Russian soldiers is in proportion to the Russiaâs population. It also seems that Ukraineâs recruitment capacity (in absolute numbers) is at least on par with that of the Russia and itâs unclear if its maximum capacity has even been reached.
Ukrainian soldiers seem to always receive decent prosthetics that enable them to remain in working life and be with their families. In that case it is not a huge loss for the society that a soldier has got seriously wounded. If the risk of death was as high as that of Russiansâ, there would be (even) less motivation to enlist.
But, be it like this or that, the reality is that the common practice in wars is to assume it makes no difference whether the lost soldier is dead or crippled, and because of that, they typically count military losses, not military deaths. Regardless of how retarded that is.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al
on 22 Mar 15:19
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Iâm going against the grain here, but I just think this is really sad. A lot of these people will have been decent people, loved by decent people and some have been brainwashed. Itâs a horrible, terrible human cost cos of a dictator
Doomsider@lemmy.world
on 22 Mar 18:05
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The world allowing the few to massacre the many for their personal gain has to be what we reject in the 21st century. We need to start arresting and trying every war monger for the murders they are.
Losses include casualties, where a combatant is just injured. That might be losing a limb, but in many cases its much less severe and they recover and return to fighting. 3 years is plenty of recovery time, enough for the same person to have been multiple casualties.
Russian has been losing and the economy is collapsing since 2018 according to these news. Every other week I see something like this. Yet we dont see them retreating.
900k is more than 50% of there forces according to wikipedia that list 1.5 millions.
I highly doubt the accuracy of these news reports.
I travel a lot, both for work and leisure, and wherever thereâs no travel restrictions for Russians, like Thailand, UAE, or Egypt, itâs simply overrun with Russian tourists. And theyâre rich, too, with the latest iPhones, Apple Watches and all the other fashion brands.
As much as Iâd like to see l say that Russia is feeling the impact of this war, empirically, I canât say that it seems that way.
The richest people donât care about the war, if groceries go up 25% that barely makes a dent. You wonât see the people who are actually suffering from this being tourists.
I watched a couple of YouTube videos from a normal guy who lives in Russia talking about what it was actually like to live in Russia around the time that Tucker Carlson did that weird state visit and he peeled back a layer of intentional propaganda that the American journalist was spreading - that Russians are living in some kind of luxury paradise. Sure, everything costs less over there, but people are also paid a lot less too. If youâre working class, itâs hard to afford enough food to put on the table sometimes. The rich, however, are not hurting for anything and a lot of big brand labels that said they would exit Russia just rebranded themselves or quietly re-entered the market after all the commotion about the war died down.
I didnât mean to suggest that it isnât affecting the ordinary, working class Russian. My observation is that there donât appear to be any less affluent Russian tourists.
Their losses are clearly significant enough to bring a foreign army (North Koreans) to replenish their forces. Maybe not 50% but I donât think itâs that far off.
I have not heard of another batch of NK soldiers after the initial 12000. There are talks about them possibly sending another 12000.
With the Russia losing 1300 soldiers per day as dead and wounded, the NK troops cover 10(+ maybe another 10?) days worth soldiers.
The Russian army is shrinking by about 15 000 soldiers per month. That was canceled out by NK troops for one month once, and possibly another one soon.
It is collapsing. Some people have interpreted the news as the economy being at the brink of an immediate collapse, but articles I have read have talked consistently of end of 2025/early 2026.
The difference is, in 2022 and 2023 it was assumed that once it becomes clear that the Russiaâs economy collapsing will be inevitable unless they immediately end the war, they would indeed end it. Now itâs clear that they will indeed go to the very end, allowing their economy to collapse and then the war ending as a consequence of that.
So, yes, it was predicted that the economy will collapse by 2026, and the war would end in 2022 or 2023 to avoid that. But, the timetable of the actual collapse has not changed. Or, at least not the timetables Iâve been seeing.
index@sh.itjust.works
on 23 Mar 11:23
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This is the reality of war. Millions of people die fighting over invisible lines on the map
Countries are invisible lines on Earth. Nations are not.
Nations are groups of people that sometimes fill some lines, often leave some parts among the lines unfilled, sometimes cross them.
And nations can exist without any lines on Earth at all. If Ukraine was to somehow get completely occupied by the Russia, Ukrainians as a nation would continue existing. Until the Russia manages to actively purge them.
The Russiaâs official news agency that will not publish anything that Putin disagrees with, has written the clearest explanation about the genocidal goal. The important part is that in one part it said that all nazis in Ukraine must be exterminated, and in another part it defines Ukrainian nazis as âeverybody who supports the regime of Kyivâ. And then thereâs Putinâs speech on February 21st, 2022, which was supposed to take place just hours before the missiles start flying, although the attack then had to be postponed by two days. And then there are the three articles published by RIA Novosti precisely at 08:00 Moscow time on February 26th, 2022. And Putinâs speech from summer 2021.
I wish I could find the version of the âWhat Russia should do with Ukraineâ articleâs text that is annotated in English language. I spent some hours looking for it a few days ago, to no avail. Itâs somewhere out there in the Internet â I can remember having read it.
marsNemophilist@lemmy.wtf
on 23 Mar 11:29
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this type of propaganda is useless. few people even care or believe these numbers.
The Oryx numbers at least are not underestimated â each single number has a photo to prove it. And the numbers published by ZSU always rise and descend hand-in-hand with those of Oryx â there seems to be a more or less fixed coefficient that you can convert the numbers back and forth.
Also, because the ZSU data is published before that of Oryx, it must be based on actual data. Then, the question is: what is the coefficient between reality and these numbers we keep seeing in these brown images. We have got a couple of leaks from the Russia, and they have been almost precisely the same as the data published by ZSU. Therefore, the coefficient is apparently 1.
I find it very surprising that the ZSU numbers are not inflated, but when trying to find evidence on how much they are inflated, Iâve only found evidence of them actually being as precisely correct as possible.
This number might count soldiers several times. If a soldier gets injured and becomes a casualty, they can heal up and then serve again. So the same soldier could be injured and recover three times and then be killed. That would make hm a causally four times.
Leviathan@lemmy.world
on 23 Mar 12:00
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They throw their young generations into the meat grinder just to control resources. Putin couldnât find a way to pivot to new domestic products so now people get to die.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
on 23 Mar 14:07
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Not particularly, the problem is that Russia is stupid and would rather try to annex Ukraine rather than invest time and resources into the development of Siberia. Also they donât want to actually improve things just make them worse.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
on 23 Mar 14:12
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Thatâs kind of what happens when your government and economy functions off of corruption.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
on 23 Mar 15:13
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Well its either that or collapse, problem with Russia though is that the various ethnic and political groups that couldâve collapsed it easily were more or less wiped out during the holodomor. Specifically the ones in Siberia and the far east.
What happened in Siberia and the far east? Which groups were killed?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
on 23 Mar 15:46
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Lots of native Siberians and the Eastern Ukrainians, while the Holodomor was centralized to Ukraine it was not restricted to Ukraine itself. Meaning lots and lots of starving people that either fled or died. Also the Soviets were still doing purges throughout Siberia and the Far East because they were paranoid of a resurgent White or Black army which definitely didnât help, also when I say purges I mean entire villages wiped out.
Ukraine has lots of valuable natural resources, but Russia has much more of everything. The biggest reason for the invasion is most likely that Putin could not let a âbrother nationâ prosper and drift towards Europe and being a functioning democracy.
Russiaâs population might get wild ideas if they saw that their Ukrainian cousinsâ standard of living starts to rise rapidly while they have to endure living under a fascist dictator. And substandard and underdeveloped infrastructure, due to the rampant corruption and a government who doesnât give a shit about the areas outside the larger cities.
Itâs that but (playing devilâs advocate for a second) Russia âtraditionallyâ had a huge buffer between Moscow and the evil west. If Ukraine goes European and -worse- NATO, then that evil west with their evil ideas like freedom and democracy is suddenly quite close to Moscowâs doorstep.
I thought it was about access to that gasline without Ukraine intervention, but then they blew it up or something, sooooâŠnothing? Baby boy Putin has been anti-Ukraine for a decade at least. Seems to be about being anti-NATO and for âpolitical powerâ, but I doubt Putin will gain any if they end up winning against Ukraine.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
on 23 Mar 12:15
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Iâm not even Russian and Iâm offended. Most of these people who died likely didnât even want to fight, but weâre drafted anyway. Blame the oligarchy, not the people who were forced to participate.
FrankMaleir@lemmy.world
on 23 Mar 12:29
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Latest mobilization in russia: 133 000
New contracted service in the russian army forces in 2024: 450 000
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gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 23 Mar 13:53
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Most of these people who died likely didnât even want to fight, but weâre drafted anyway. Blame the oligarchy, not the people who were forced to participate
Had my father been drafted for 'nam his plan was to use his rifle to kill as many officers as possible before himself, rather than fight for the US in that war. I had the same plan in the unlikely event I was drafted for something, too
Maybe the Russians could have a backbone like that, yeah? Theyâre being given tools of war and willingly go off to die without a fight? Actually pathetic, and not worth sympathy
the Russian law prohibits using drafted conscripts in a war like this. While that law is largely ignored, it goes have the effect that the Russia hires soldiers mainly through giving them an enormous salary:
In rural areas a factory worker might get a monthly salary of around 70 ⏠per month. As a soldier you get 2000 ⏠per month, which is about 70 ⏠per day!
That also means, the soldiers are in it because they have decided they want to do they in order to give a less poor life for their family. Killing othersâ children in order to feed theirs better.
A very small fraction of the soldiers you see die have come to the front against their will.
Therefore:
Roaches, not orcs.
SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee
on 23 Mar 13:51
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Poor person gets brainwashed, coerced and joins military to earn money.
âHaha, orc!!! They all deserve to die a pigs death!!â
There is no place for sympathy to Russians, most of them support Putin. They arenât brainwashed and most are aware of the situation and do nothing.
SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee
on 23 Mar 16:34
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A lot of Americans support Trump or have no willingness to do anything about his facism.
A lot of Germans support Afd.
A lot of french support le pen.
A lot of British folks support reform and Tommy robinson.
So, do all the people from these countries also not deserve any sympathy? You know the ones who canât do anything about who rules over them? Because they are too busy bogged down in trying to make a living?
Do nothing
How do you expect the regular russian to rise up against putin when they can barely can provide anything for their family? But also, When their only source of truth has been the state media, ofcourse itâs brainwashing.
Americans are not doing anything about the horrific things trump is doing and is that okay? Should we start calling Americans burger pigs and paint them all as racist caricatures of fat blonde pigs?
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At least donât dehumanise the Russians. There are plenty who hate whatâs happening and have died to free their country.
Teknikal@eviltoast.org
on 23 Mar 13:24
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Let them keep dying, itâs pretty obvious Russias weak if it wasnât for the Nukes the rest of Europe would just pull an Iraq on them. I feel Russias real threat is probably China though they have a lot of land and itâs ripe for the taking.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
on 23 Mar 13:57
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The fucking Muscovites can continue to fertilize the earth. The loss of troops and material means nothing to the Russians. The asswipes will continue to use mass assaults until the soldiers or the public revolts. Until then, Fuck Russia and US Reichwingers.
Theyâre using money in lieu of skill. Eventually theyâll run out if it.
Then no more high salary for the Russian soldier â and consequently, no more soldiers.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
on 23 Mar 15:26
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High salary? I thought at this point most of their fighting force is getting paid in âNot going back to that gulag for those heinous things you did to people back home.â
Most of them have enlisted out of their own free will. There are plenty of prisoners as well, but â at least to my understanding â they amount less than the people who enlisted for the money. Also, many of the enlisted prisoners are in it voluntarily because of money and amnesty. And many are simply forced to sign the âvoluntaryâ contract by torturing them until they do.
What Iâve been surprised with is that as long as you are alive, you almost always do receive your salary as a Russian soldier. And your relatives will indeed receive their compensation â assuming thereâs evidence of you dying. There almost never is, and then youâre marked as AWOL, not as dead. And if youâre AWOL, your family receives no compensation. Ukraine has huge refrigerated warehouses full of Russian soldiers waiting to be sent home, because when they eventually reach the Russia, that country will either go bankrupt or has to say âwe changed our mind. Although you sent your son to our war for money, weâre not actually going to payâ, which will seriously destabilise the Russia.
This is indeed also why the Russiaâs economy is such a very important factor here. Thereâs no way theyâll be able to fill the required 30 000 new soldiers per month with prisoners alone. They donât have that many hundred thousands of prisoners available for that. Send too many and you will have prison revolts.
Hm, cannot find that article anywhere. I found two articles that talk about refrigerated trains bringing bodies there, but they donât tell about the actual morgue at all. They are here:
All articles I can find about the larger warehouse near Kyiv are from 2022. There are articles telling about swaps of Russian soldiers who have had influential relatives. In 2022 there has been a swap of 50 such soldiers â and the same amount of Ukrainians in the other direction.
Starting from summer 2024, there are suddenly several articles telling about swaps of hundreds of bodies at once, so at that point something has changed. Of course, with the Russia losing 1300 soldiers per day, and therefore about 400 of their soldiers dying per day, swaps of 200 to 600 dead bodies a few times per month are not that very many, really. Even if most of the Russian soldiers die in areas unreachable by Ukrainians, that still seems like a very low number. There is some amount of pressure inside the Russia for getting some of the bodies away from Ukraine, but none of the halfways recent articles tell anything about how many Russian bodies are currently in storage somewhere, waiting for repatriation to the Russia. Based on the amounts of a few hundred at a time, Iâd say there must be many that the Russia does not accept. But no information on where in Ukraine they are physically located at the moment. Kind of understandable, because the Russian military could bomb the morgue to get rid of evidence, if they found out where it is.
It is weird that apparently no articles have been written on this subject in the last two years or so!
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
on 23 Mar 14:39
collapse
ah yes, my favourite fertilizer, the heavy metal, carcinogenic, neurotoxic, lead bullet
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world
on 23 Mar 14:19
nextcollapse
Russia is losing⊠Badly
Their only hope is for Ukraine to just give up
This is trumps job now
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
on 23 Mar 15:27
nextcollapse
Russia? Not as far as I can tell. They seem to lose 1-1.5k people a day to lose ground. Ukraine has more tanks than the start of the war, and more of their own land back.
I think the most critical thing is manpower. AFAIK weâre not sure how many Ukrainian soldiers are left (I couldnât find anything if you do please link it).
So far all the land they gained was in that territory that they were destabilizing since 2014. They spend thousands of people and all the money to level small towns to the ground, after which Ukranian forces fall back from the rubble, and Russians technically take it. Sometimes they do that several times, because holding a bunch of smoldering derbies is actually hard.
On paper you can call it taking the land. I donât know what portion of the land they grabbed in the beginning of the war they still hold, I think it less than before, especially if you take into account Kursk region, but itâs hardly anything substantial.
europeanfan122@lemm.ee
on 23 Mar 14:50
nextcollapse
I dont feel bad about it
Madison420@lemmy.world
on 23 Mar 14:58
nextcollapse
Letâs just remember Putin does have a sense of humor. Sending families of dead soldiers lost in what the world is calling a meat grinder literal meat grinders as presents is extremely funny in a way it absolutely shouldnât be.
SolidShake@lemmy.world
on 23 Mar 16:30
nextcollapse
dont worryâŠtrump will create peace on earth and no more wars and junk.
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Awww đ„
Yes that number is too low agreed
Needs more zeroes.
Fuckem.
You have more in common with those soldiers than you do with the warpigs pulling the strings that led them to their deaths.
So⊠You have a lot of common with people who are ready to go kill in exchange for money?
Oh wowzies.
Also what a damn bad dichotomy: either side with killers for money or those who pay them to kill.
For once, a normal human being will not side with either of.
edit: oh keep them downvotes coming, keep yourself counting all yâall who think killing for money is ok ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ.
You mean the 18-30 y/o men who are conscripted into compulsory military service for a year? Kinda sounds like a lot of them might not have much choice, barring gulag or suicide, in the matter.
Ah welcome to your private fantasy land. Enjoy it.
I just believe the righteous antipathy is better leveled at the Russian government, specifically Putin, than the anonymous cannon fodder.
I prefer to hate everyone willing to kill me, my friends, my family, take over my country equally. Especially so, if they do it for money, for ten years.
Hard to grasp such a complex concept, I understand.
I can understand why you feel the way you do and cannot dispute it is a hatred youâve earned.
Just like I wouldnât be able to blame any Canadian for hating every US soldier if the US were to invade Canada.
I personally feel bad for every person involved in something as horrible as fighting in a war. I wish their hearts, brains, and energies could instead be employed in something peaceful, helpful, and beneficial for the future.
I agree with both of you.
I live in Finland, where about five percent of the people are Russian-speakers. Half from the Russia, the other half from Baltics.
My image of them has changed dramatically since 2022. Iâve had a job where I encounter a lot of different low-educated workers, and that has a included several tens of Russian-speakers. There has been precisely one among them that has not been repeating Putinâs talking points.
Nowadays I try to steer clear of everyone with a Russian name because I donât want to ruin my workday. When they hear that Iâve lived some time in Ukraine, the war easily comes up. And then does the propaganda.
Having this experience has been something I really wouldnât have wanted to have. I have indeed met Russians who are decent people. But, all of them have received other citizenships already years ago, because if you donât believe the Russian propaganda, you see what a horrible country it is, and want nothing to do with it.
If someone has not left the Russia by 2025, they have a reason for that. They stand for Putinâs fascism.
Thank you for sharing your personal observations and experiences. They sound even more insufferable and dangerous than MAGAsites in the US.
tbf, most Russian conscripts are not involved in the war - men sign theoretically voluntary contracts in exchange for extra pay or reduced service time to be deployed outside of Russia.
That being said, thereâs a great deal of coercion thatâs involved, so while you can resist pressure to sign a contract, itâs not unreasonable to think that a significant minority felt they really didnât have a choice.
For a lot of people, yeah actually. Itâs all relative to each countryâs general economy and propaganda, but there are a lot of people around the world either already in the military willing to die or kill for their country because of patriotism or feeling like thereâs no other career paths for them, or that would take up the call if conscripted by their country.
Then think about how hitmen, assassins, sicarios and those type of criminals are usually from poverty or lower class and just regular people that descended into a life of crime and kill for money. Yeah, I think itâs actually quite common for regular folk to be killing others for money unfortunately.
<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c77a719a-d116-40eb-bf58-0835a9c88849.jpeg">
I thought this meme was dead. I miss meme center.
The war is about 20 km away from my home town. I took part in two revolutions in order to prevent my home from becoming a totalitarian shithole.
You are wrong in almost every point.
But please, donât let me stop you from living in your little Narnia, you stupid potato.
âas a black manâ vibes
Vibe away
A residential house in my home town was hit with a rocket today. 88 injured, of them 14 children - a school was nearby. Howâs your vibing mate?
Then you woke up
Geez man, that really sucks. Iâm sorry thatâs happening to you and your people.
Thank you. News are bad today đ
Iâm pretty sure everybody on these websites knows theyâre more similar to enlisted soldiers than to Vladimir Putin.
Not everybody, according to some of the comments in this very post.
And they all died because one psychopathic old fart simply just wanted to take over majority of or the entire country of another for personal gain.
Hey, thatâs not fair! Most of them were not killed, but only mutilated too much to be ableish-bodied enough for the russian army!
(Serious note: this is the casuality number, that includes deaths, but also soldiers with wounds that put them out of service, like lost legs)
And then they send the mutilated back out into the trenches literally.
Armed only with crutches.
Nah, just pick up the crutches from the last guy that was in there.
Some they do, but actually most they donât. The casualty rate is about 40 000 per month, meaning that there are about 25 000 cripples per month. The Russian recruitment capacity is about 25 000 to 35 000 per month depending on the source, so there should be about one cripple for one four-limbed soldier if all of the cripples were sent to the front. In reality, their number is a tiny fraction of that, as we can see in the videos.
The fact they are doing it and there is footage of it is funny lmao
Does that not include Russians defecting also?
Russians donât really defect. They are told that Ukrainians will torture them for fun if they are caught alive and then kill each one, so it looks for them as if a 99% chance of dying on the field is still better chance than 100% chance of torture and then death anyway.
And because the Russian soldiers honestly believe this is how Ukrainians behave, they do that very thing to Ukrainians âin revengeâ.
If they defect to the rear, they are shot by kadyrovite sheep enthusiasts.
So, whether the number includes defects is largely irrelevant. Maybe they do, maybe they donât, but that wonât affect the numbers even by a tenth of a percent.
Yeah, but letâs keep hating every russian, because they âfreely choose to enlistâ and invade other countries. They love being shelled by Nato artillery đ„°
Riiiiiigght.
Be conscripted and die, or fight conscription and die.
Cowards to the last man.
Russian soldiers are mostly not conscripted, but enlist because the salary of a factory worker in a rural town is around 70 ⏠per month, whereas the salary of a soldier is about 2000 ⏠per day, which means a monthly salary each day, including weekends.
They go killing because they are okay to kill others in order to get a richer life for their family. And thatâs not an okay reason. They have chosen their fate and deserve death.
They didnât freely choose to enlist but if you put a gun in my hand and tell me kill that innocent person I will rather shoot the person giving me the order
I think both of you are oversimplifying.
Choice and freedom take on an entirely different meaning when you have a state media bombarding you with anti-Ukraine propaganda 24/7. Itâs easy for us to say from the sidelines that weâd never get swept up in a war against innocents, but probably a lot of the soldiers have been fully indoctrinated with the idea that Ukraine are a threat to their families. Not to mention they probably now have friends and family who have been killed or wounded in this war.
Putin is the real villain here. He not only started the war, heâs the one who has kept it going by his refusal to withdraw troops, silenced political opposition, lied to his population, influenced global politics in his favour by buying elections, and used his subjects as fodder in this pointless war.
Itâs fucking twisted the amount of suffering one thoroughly evil man can cause.
Well, now you are oversimplifying world politics to one manâs deeds. As if Nato expansionism did not play any role in the creation of this conflict. Read a little history before 2023 and youâll see acquiring Ukraine is been a race between Nato and Russia since at least 2014.
Russia had already invaded in 2014, and successfully got a puppet as president in 2010.
NATO doesnât expand by conquest, countries choose freely to join and other countries (especially hostile ones) donât get to dictate the alliances of their neighbours.
Yeah, Nato is such a saint entity who âfreelyâ bombs Yugoslavia and Libya.
Natoâs whole purpose is to deter Russia and will not stop until whole east Europe is pointing missiles at it. Do you believe thatâs a ârandom freely admittanceâ policy?
Yes the whole point of a DEFENSIVE alliance is to defend against a known aggressor, thank you for clarifying
So you bought the russian bad, american good story? So naive. Look how that ends for Ukraine now.
What if I told you theyâre not an innocent person, theyâre a Nazi?
And if you refuse to fight Nazis, maybe itâs because youâre a Nazi yourself, hmm? Maybe weâll investigate you for that, and keep you in prison while we do. And of course weâll be investigating your friends and family to see if there are any Nazis there too.
Thatâs the condensed version, but you get the picture. Thereâs a lot more going on than just âhereâs a gun, kill themâ.
Exactly. But itâs just easier to plain hate than to understand.
They were probably told Ukrain had Weapons of Mass Destruction, and so itâs their DUTY as defenders of freedom to invade and stop these terrorists! ⊠oh, wait
Easier to say than to do. But for the âinnocent victimâ case you should look instead at Israel. Thatâs where the innocents are killed by en mass by direct order.
Itâs not mere personal gain with Putin. The man has a vision of returning Russia to glorious Soviet Union. Probably felt kicked in the balls when it all fell apart. Remember, he was the head of the KGB, an extraordinarily powerful man. Maybe even more powerful than the Premier? Dunno.
He likely felt he would quickly crush Ukraine, make them an example, and then move on to other lost, and weaker, countries.
When he SU fell apart he was clerk in stasi.
He was never the head of KGB. He was planted as the prime minister by KGB precisely because the big guys at KGB believed they could control him when the prime minister becomes a president by the president resigning.
The other important people in KGB would never have allowed for the head of the KGB to become the president if the Russia, because they were his competitors.
Anyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up?
Tap for spoiler
~58,000
Plus about 300k âcasualtiesâ, which is more apples to apples with the 900k Russians.
Only about 150k Americans seriously wounded in Vietnam.
Thatâs a fact. Though itâs hard to know what kind of statistic weâre seeing in Russiaâs numbers here, by comparison
I would imagine Agent Orange and severe PTSD-induced homelessness or suicide should also contribute to that number.
They donât count as military losses. This isnât a statistic about Russian suffering. This a statistic about how many soldiers the Russian military has lost from its ranks. PTSD doesnât remove a soldier from the ranks.
This is in no way true is it? Holy shit
Did you miss the article where local officials were giving out meat grinders to the parents of the KIA?
Itâs . . . not . . . I donât . . i mean. Yeah. Putinâs an absolute monster.
Iâll be honest: I know next to nothing about the Vietnam War, living in Germany. We just read Slaughterhouse 5 in our English class and thatâs it. Given its omnipresence in culture in general, I never would have thought that so âfewâ people died. Donât get me wrong - itâs still a lot of people. But compared to the 900000 itâs just a drop in the bucket.
Fuck Putin and what heâs doing to my fellow countrymen/women/people
Most of those killed in Vietnam were Vietnamese civilians
If you looked at the news article, the spokesman for the Kremlin mentioned that it was what the parents had âwanted and requestedâ which makes it look more like the parents taking a subtle jab at the leadership because they then had to publically hand them out. <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a95d1284-d282-4152-b1cd-5361a077cece.jpeg">
Yes, yes I do.
Interesting comparison. People cheering on those Russian deaths should also be cheering on those American deaths
From an odd point of view, I think itâs been good that world war 2 happened, so that we lost our grip on a lot of countries. Such as Vietnam.
Canât really say that out loud tho aha
Also I wouldnât exist without world war 2.
If I didnât have sex with my wife on that specific night then my specific sperm cell wouldnât have gone into her specific egg cell.
Existential crisis intensifies
I donât think your existence depended on your having sex with your wifeâŠ
You might be right⊠unless⊠time travel đ€š
a 10 billion đ stupid propaganda why not?
Uhuh
Seeing as they are still on their murderous war of conquest, obviously not enough yet.
The total number is not what you should be looking at. The interesting thing is the number of losses in proportion to the Russian recruitment capacity. They have recruitment infrastructure that enables them to recruit a maximum of 35 000 (or, according to some sources, just 25 000) soldiers per month. They are not able to restructure their recruitment procedures in wartime, as that would first decrease the recruitment capacity for a few years.
The Russia must get their losses under that number, because as long as they donât, they wonât be able to train their soldiers â they are needed too acutely at the front for that. If they can train their soldiers, their daily losses will decrease a lot.
Neither side is going to run out of population to send to the front in the next 50 years. But they can lose them faster than they are able to recruit new ones.
Good for Ukraine.
have they looked under the couch?
Thereâs only a JD Vance there.
Are they stupid? Just find them!
How many of those are From NK or are those numbers not counted?
Not officially as itâs hard to determine the nationality. But itâs a drop in a bucket as NK has seen very limited action in the Kursk region.
There has been no indication that any new NK soldiers have arrived after the initial 12000. Thatâs ten dayâs worth losses or one month worth Russian army size decrease if you take the Russiaâs recruitment capacity into account.
When did the NK soldiers come? Four months ago? If so, they have recruited 100 000 to 140 000 Russian soldiers during that time, and the 13 000 NK soldiers are about 10 % atop that number. As they are muchore skilled than Russian soldiers, youâd assume their number is less than the slightly under 10 % youâd otherwise assume.
So, letâs guess about 5 % of the current number are NK losses. Possibly less.
Iâm honestly surprised they havenât pushed for more of them but I guess they canât maintain their hold on their borders if they sent too many soldiers.
I find this difficult to believe. Edit: Wikipedia has a total (both sides) death toll of 160k-290k.
IDK but seems probable if anybody on earth can take large amount of casualties, might be the Russians
Yup. They do have that feature.
As do Ukrainians. Which causes it to be a detrimental feature for both sides. If only one side had that, then it would be of advantage.
As always that this topic gets discussed: dead and wounded
Title says âlostâ. I took that to mean killed.
Many do. But, in military purposes, it is not really relevant whether your army loses a soldier through death or through a severe permanent wound. He is still a soldier that you cannot use at the front.
Itâs a standard practice to count the dead and permanently wounded in the same number, because thatâs what is militarily relevant.
This difficulty to believe itâs actually quite fundamental to whatâs happening.
If you like, I invite you to imagine what would be the explanation if these numbers were true. (Even adjusted for being dead and wounded)
See first comment, 900K include wounded too.
Seriously wounded.
There are also slight wounds, which number at around 10 000 per day on average (according to a Russian source that I read two-three days ago). Remember that this number includes everything, including getting a paper cut in your finger, so the same person can end up in that number several times per month.
The number of Russian military losses consists of wounded by a bit under â of the number. The wound gets included in the number only if its severe enough to permanently remove you from the front.
Casualties != Death
regardless of the total number there are combat footage videos of entire platoons getting obliterated
PSA: Losses include dead AND wounded.
If wounded means combat ineffective, Iâll take what I can get.
Not nearly enough, but certainly welcome.
Where is your humanity?
In the above post.
This is a war fought against humanity. Ukraineâs strategy is to keep Russian losses at or above the Russian recruitment capacity. If the Russian losses descend under 25 000 per month, they can first fill their ranks, and when thatâs done, start actually training their soldiers, which would change the course of the war. If there are less than about a thousand Russia military losses per day, then humanity is in danger in large regions.
Putin is ok with these numbers, in fact they need to be higher.
Russia just gained 900,000 eligible women in his eyes.
More mail order bribes incoming.
About 600 000 of those 900 000 are permanently crippled instead of dead. Those who already were married donât produce a eligible woman for Putin, but of course in the Russian atmosphere you wonât find a woman if your number of limbs is less than four.
They probably are higher.
Lost, huh?
Does that mean casualties? As in, not necessarily deaths?
I would assume the answer is âyes.â
Fuck I hate the propaganda reporting on both sides.
Including wounded is the official definition of lost, always been. No need to call propaganda, it simply how is defined.
âRussia suffered x casualties in y time.â
Just like prices ending in .99, a significant amount of useful idiots are going to look at the word âlostâ and assume it means killed.
Thatâs how propaganda works and it shouldnât have to be spelled out for you.
Lost means ânot able to fightâ. If they lose a leg, they might be alive, but not very useful in the battlefield. Therefore the soldier, not the human, is lost.
Most of it itâs because in military setting, those two are equivalent, sine the only thing they care is about how many abled bodies they have available for the meat grinder.
What I meant is:
Propaganda is writing 0.99 with the intention of tricking people into buying. Note here to purpose of writing 99 is used.
Casualties was born from the necessity of generals to know how many troops are available. There is no psychological trick in there. Just because civilians misinterpret it does not mean there is a propagandistic goal hidden somewhere.
See the difference?
A bit over one third of these losses are deaths.
Typically in wars itâs about one sixth, and that is also approximately Ukraineâs ratio as well. For the Russia the number is very different because they donât care for their wounded â many of the wounded are converted to dead through inexistence of medical care.
So, 900 000 Russian losses equals a bit over 300 000 dead orcs/roaches/whateveryoucallthem.
The thing is, for the war it doesnât really have much meaning whether the loss is through death or a serious wound. Itâs one soldier less all the same.
Not true. A soldier thatâs killed isnât going back home to his family. Heâll never have kids. Heâll never contribute to the economy ever again.
Trying to say kills donât matter in a war is retarded.
I largely agree with you on that.
But, that depends on who is using the numbers. For immediate military use it is not important what happens after the war. For the general who is planning a war strategy, what matters is how much the army is losing manpower. For the society it does matter whether the lost manpower is dead or just missing one arm, but for the war strategy it doesnât.
Albeit, I do somewhat disagree with this myself. I keep arguing that although the total military losses of Ukraine are close to those of the Russia, it makes a huge difference that the number of dead soldiers is smaller even in proportion to Ukraineâs population than the number of dead Russian soldiers is in proportion to the Russiaâs population. It also seems that Ukraineâs recruitment capacity (in absolute numbers) is at least on par with that of the Russia and itâs unclear if its maximum capacity has even been reached.
Ukrainian soldiers seem to always receive decent prosthetics that enable them to remain in working life and be with their families. In that case it is not a huge loss for the society that a soldier has got seriously wounded. If the risk of death was as high as that of Russiansâ, there would be (even) less motivation to enlist.
But, be it like this or that, the reality is that the common practice in wars is to assume it makes no difference whether the lost soldier is dead or crippled, and because of that, they typically count military losses, not military deaths. Regardless of how retarded that is.
Iâm going against the grain here, but I just think this is really sad. A lot of these people will have been decent people, loved by decent people and some have been brainwashed. Itâs a horrible, terrible human cost cos of a dictator
The world allowing the few to massacre the many for their personal gain has to be what we reject in the 21st century. We need to start arresting and trying every war monger for the murders they are.
Losses include casualties, where a combatant is just injured. That might be losing a limb, but in many cases its much less severe and they recover and return to fighting. 3 years is plenty of recovery time, enough for the same person to have been multiple casualties.
Russian has been losing and the economy is collapsing since 2018 according to these news. Every other week I see something like this. Yet we dont see them retreating.
900k is more than 50% of there forces according to wikipedia that list 1.5 millions.
I highly doubt the accuracy of these news reports.
I travel a lot, both for work and leisure, and wherever thereâs no travel restrictions for Russians, like Thailand, UAE, or Egypt, itâs simply overrun with Russian tourists. And theyâre rich, too, with the latest iPhones, Apple Watches and all the other fashion brands.
As much as Iâd like to see l say that Russia is feeling the impact of this war, empirically, I canât say that it seems that way.
The richest people donât care about the war, if groceries go up 25% that barely makes a dent. You wonât see the people who are actually suffering from this being tourists.
Yes, of course, and I agree; I was only remarking that thereâs a demographic that doesnât appear to be affected by this at all.
Classism is present in Russia too.
I watched a couple of YouTube videos from a normal guy who lives in Russia talking about what it was actually like to live in Russia around the time that Tucker Carlson did that weird state visit and he peeled back a layer of intentional propaganda that the American journalist was spreading - that Russians are living in some kind of luxury paradise. Sure, everything costs less over there, but people are also paid a lot less too. If youâre working class, itâs hard to afford enough food to put on the table sometimes. The rich, however, are not hurting for anything and a lot of big brand labels that said they would exit Russia just rebranded themselves or quietly re-entered the market after all the commotion about the war died down.
I didnât mean to suggest that it isnât affecting the ordinary, working class Russian. My observation is that there donât appear to be any less affluent Russian tourists.
Their losses are clearly significant enough to bring a foreign army (North Koreans) to replenish their forces. Maybe not 50% but I donât think itâs that far off.
I have not heard of another batch of NK soldiers after the initial 12000. There are talks about them possibly sending another 12000.
With the Russia losing 1300 soldiers per day as dead and wounded, the NK troops cover 10(+ maybe another 10?) days worth soldiers.
The Russian army is shrinking by about 15 000 soldiers per month. That was canceled out by NK troops for one month once, and possibly another one soon.
It is collapsing. Some people have interpreted the news as the economy being at the brink of an immediate collapse, but articles I have read have talked consistently of end of 2025/early 2026.
The difference is, in 2022 and 2023 it was assumed that once it becomes clear that the Russiaâs economy collapsing will be inevitable unless they immediately end the war, they would indeed end it. Now itâs clear that they will indeed go to the very end, allowing their economy to collapse and then the war ending as a consequence of that.
So, yes, it was predicted that the economy will collapse by 2026, and the war would end in 2022 or 2023 to avoid that. But, the timetable of the actual collapse has not changed. Or, at least not the timetables Iâve been seeing.
This is the reality of war. Millions of people die fighting over invisible lines on the map
This isnât a war of lines on the map, really. The Russiaâs goal is the end of Ukrainians as a nation. And breaking NATOâs article 5.
I donât recall this being putin goal. Nations are invisible lines on earth
Countries are invisible lines on Earth. Nations are not.
Nations are groups of people that sometimes fill some lines, often leave some parts among the lines unfilled, sometimes cross them.
And nations can exist without any lines on Earth at all. If Ukraine was to somehow get completely occupied by the Russia, Ukrainians as a nation would continue existing. Until the Russia manages to actively purge them.
The Russiaâs official news agency that will not publish anything that Putin disagrees with, has written the clearest explanation about the genocidal goal. The important part is that in one part it said that all nazis in Ukraine must be exterminated, and in another part it defines Ukrainian nazis as âeverybody who supports the regime of Kyivâ. And then thereâs Putinâs speech on February 21st, 2022, which was supposed to take place just hours before the missiles start flying, although the attack then had to be postponed by two days. And then there are the three articles published by RIA Novosti precisely at 08:00 Moscow time on February 26th, 2022. And Putinâs speech from summer 2021.
I wish I could find the version of the âWhat Russia should do with Ukraineâ articleâs text that is annotated in English language. I spent some hours looking for it a few days ago, to no avail. Itâs somewhere out there in the Internet â I can remember having read it.
this type of propaganda is useless. few people even care or believe these numbers.
The Oryx numbers at least are not underestimated â each single number has a photo to prove it. And the numbers published by ZSU always rise and descend hand-in-hand with those of Oryx â there seems to be a more or less fixed coefficient that you can convert the numbers back and forth.
Also, because the ZSU data is published before that of Oryx, it must be based on actual data. Then, the question is: what is the coefficient between reality and these numbers we keep seeing in these brown images. We have got a couple of leaks from the Russia, and they have been almost precisely the same as the data published by ZSU. Therefore, the coefficient is apparently 1.
I find it very surprising that the ZSU numbers are not inflated, but when trying to find evidence on how much they are inflated, Iâve only found evidence of them actually being as precisely correct as possible.
This number might count soldiers several times. If a soldier gets injured and becomes a casualty, they can heal up and then serve again. So the same soldier could be injured and recover three times and then be killed. That would make hm a causally four times.
They throw their young generations into the meat grinder just to control resources. Putin couldnât find a way to pivot to new domestic products so now people get to die.
Fight war, not wars.
does ukraine actually have resources? russia is gigantic what could they possibly need so badly
They have some rare earth minearals and a lot of farmland.
anything fancy that russia doesnât have ?
Not particularly, the problem is that Russia is stupid and would rather try to annex Ukraine rather than invest time and resources into the development of Siberia. Also they donât want to actually improve things just make them worse.
Thatâs kind of what happens when your government and economy functions off of corruption.
Well its either that or collapse, problem with Russia though is that the various ethnic and political groups that couldâve collapsed it easily were more or less wiped out during the holodomor. Specifically the ones in Siberia and the far east.
What happened in Siberia and the far east? Which groups were killed?
Lots of native Siberians and the Eastern Ukrainians, while the Holodomor was centralized to Ukraine it was not restricted to Ukraine itself. Meaning lots and lots of starving people that either fled or died. Also the Soviets were still doing purges throughout Siberia and the Far East because they were paranoid of a resurgent White or Black army which definitely didnât help, also when I say purges I mean entire villages wiped out.
Ukraine has lots of valuable natural resources, but Russia has much more of everything. The biggest reason for the invasion is most likely that Putin could not let a âbrother nationâ prosper and drift towards Europe and being a functioning democracy.
Russiaâs population might get wild ideas if they saw that their Ukrainian cousinsâ standard of living starts to rise rapidly while they have to endure living under a fascist dictator. And substandard and underdeveloped infrastructure, due to the rampant corruption and a government who doesnât give a shit about the areas outside the larger cities.
Itâs that but (playing devilâs advocate for a second) Russia âtraditionallyâ had a huge buffer between Moscow and the evil west. If Ukraine goes European and -worse- NATO, then that evil west with their evil ideas like freedom and democracy is suddenly quite close to Moscowâs doorstep.
I thought it was about access to that gasline without Ukraine intervention, but then they blew it up or something, sooooâŠnothing? Baby boy Putin has been anti-Ukraine for a decade at least. Seems to be about being anti-NATO and for âpolitical powerâ, but I doubt Putin will gain any if they end up winning against Ukraine.
-900k orcs HAHA, should be more
Iâm not even Russian and Iâm offended. Most of these people who died likely didnât even want to fight, but weâre drafted anyway. Blame the oligarchy, not the people who were forced to participate.
Latest mobilization in russia: 133 000
New contracted service in the russian army forces in 2024: 450 000
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Had my father been drafted for 'nam his plan was to use his rifle to kill as many officers as possible before himself, rather than fight for the US in that war. I had the same plan in the unlikely event I was drafted for something, too
Maybe the Russians could have a backbone like that, yeah? Theyâre being given tools of war and willingly go off to die without a fight? Actually pathetic, and not worth sympathy
BUt ThEy wErE JuSt fOlLoWiNg OrDeRs
Exactly my opinion
the Russian law prohibits using drafted conscripts in a war like this. While that law is largely ignored, it goes have the effect that the Russia hires soldiers mainly through giving them an enormous salary: In rural areas a factory worker might get a monthly salary of around 70 ⏠per month. As a soldier you get 2000 ⏠per month, which is about 70 ⏠per day!
That also means, the soldiers are in it because they have decided they want to do they in order to give a less poor life for their family. Killing othersâ children in order to feed theirs better.
A very small fraction of the soldiers you see die have come to the front against their will.
Therefore: Roaches, not orcs.
There is no place for sympathy to Russians, most of them support Putin. They arenât brainwashed and most are aware of the situation and do nothing.
A lot of Americans support Trump or have no willingness to do anything about his facism.
A lot of Germans support Afd.
A lot of french support le pen.
A lot of British folks support reform and Tommy robinson.
So, do all the people from these countries also not deserve any sympathy? You know the ones who canât do anything about who rules over them? Because they are too busy bogged down in trying to make a living?
How do you expect the regular russian to rise up against putin when they can barely can provide anything for their family? But also, When their only source of truth has been the state media, ofcourse itâs brainwashing.
Americans are not doing anything about the horrific things trump is doing and is that okay? Should we start calling Americans burger pigs and paint them all as racist caricatures of fat blonde pigs?
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At least donât dehumanise the Russians. There are plenty who hate whatâs happening and have died to free their country.
Let them keep dying, itâs pretty obvious Russias weak if it wasnât for the Nukes the rest of Europe would just pull an Iraq on them. I feel Russias real threat is probably China though they have a lot of land and itâs ripe for the taking.
The fucking Muscovites can continue to fertilize the earth. The loss of troops and material means nothing to the Russians. The asswipes will continue to use mass assaults until the soldiers or the public revolts. Until then, Fuck Russia and US Reichwingers.
Theyâre using money in lieu of skill. Eventually theyâll run out if it.
Then no more high salary for the Russian soldier â and consequently, no more soldiers.
High salary? I thought at this point most of their fighting force is getting paid in âNot going back to that gulag for those heinous things you did to people back home.â
Most of them have enlisted out of their own free will. There are plenty of prisoners as well, but â at least to my understanding â they amount less than the people who enlisted for the money. Also, many of the enlisted prisoners are in it voluntarily because of money and amnesty. And many are simply forced to sign the âvoluntaryâ contract by torturing them until they do.
What Iâve been surprised with is that as long as you are alive, you almost always do receive your salary as a Russian soldier. And your relatives will indeed receive their compensation â assuming thereâs evidence of you dying. There almost never is, and then youâre marked as AWOL, not as dead. And if youâre AWOL, your family receives no compensation. Ukraine has huge refrigerated warehouses full of Russian soldiers waiting to be sent home, because when they eventually reach the Russia, that country will either go bankrupt or has to say âwe changed our mind. Although you sent your son to our war for money, weâre not actually going to payâ, which will seriously destabilise the Russia.
This is indeed also why the Russiaâs economy is such a very important factor here. Thereâs no way theyâll be able to fill the required 30 000 new soldiers per month with prisoners alone. They donât have that many hundred thousands of prisoners available for that. Send too many and you will have prison revolts.
Source on the refrigerated warehouse? Iâm super curious about that.
Hm, cannot find that article anywhere. I found two articles that talk about refrigerated trains bringing bodies there, but they donât tell about the actual morgue at all. They are here:
glavcom.ua/âŠ/jak-v-ukrajini-zberihajutsja-trupi-lâŠ
www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-61567949
All articles I can find about the larger warehouse near Kyiv are from 2022. There are articles telling about swaps of Russian soldiers who have had influential relatives. In 2022 there has been a swap of 50 such soldiers â and the same amount of Ukrainians in the other direction.
Starting from summer 2024, there are suddenly several articles telling about swaps of hundreds of bodies at once, so at that point something has changed. Of course, with the Russia losing 1300 soldiers per day, and therefore about 400 of their soldiers dying per day, swaps of 200 to 600 dead bodies a few times per month are not that very many, really. Even if most of the Russian soldiers die in areas unreachable by Ukrainians, that still seems like a very low number. There is some amount of pressure inside the Russia for getting some of the bodies away from Ukraine, but none of the halfways recent articles tell anything about how many Russian bodies are currently in storage somewhere, waiting for repatriation to the Russia. Based on the amounts of a few hundred at a time, Iâd say there must be many that the Russia does not accept. But no information on where in Ukraine they are physically located at the moment. Kind of understandable, because the Russian military could bomb the morgue to get rid of evidence, if they found out where it is.
It is weird that apparently no articles have been written on this subject in the last two years or so!
ah yes, my favourite fertilizer, the heavy metal, carcinogenic, neurotoxic, lead bullet
Russia is losing⊠Badly
Their only hope is for Ukraine to just give up
This is trumps job now
But they keep taking land, donât they?
Russia? Not as far as I can tell. They seem to lose 1-1.5k people a day to lose ground. Ukraine has more tanks than the start of the war, and more of their own land back.
I think the most critical thing is manpower. AFAIK weâre not sure how many Ukrainian soldiers are left (I couldnât find anything if you do please link it).
So far all the land they gained was in that territory that they were destabilizing since 2014. They spend thousands of people and all the money to level small towns to the ground, after which Ukranian forces fall back from the rubble, and Russians technically take it. Sometimes they do that several times, because holding a bunch of smoldering derbies is actually hard.
On paper you can call it taking the land. I donât know what portion of the land they grabbed in the beginning of the war they still hold, I think it less than before, especially if you take into account Kursk region, but itâs hardly anything substantial.
good news for ukraine, trump is on russias side.
I dont feel bad about it
Letâs just remember Putin does have a sense of humor. Sending families of dead soldiers lost in what the world is calling a meat grinder literal meat grinders as presents is extremely funny in a way it absolutely shouldnât be.
dont worryâŠtrump will create peace on earth and no more wars and junk.
Lol.