Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Putin’s war has ‘lost’ Russia up to one million young men
Daily casualty rates as a proportion of those fighting are now higher than for the Somme in 1916
The Somme has become synonymous with battlefield deaths. Russia's casualty rate in Ukraine is now higher than that in 1916
Putin’s renewed invasion of Ukraine passed its first-anniversary last month with little sign of ending. A further grim milestone will soon be reached. Since February 24 2022, Russia has lost almost one million young males to the war, through both inordinately high battlefield casualty rates, and from the hundreds of thousands of young Russians who have fled forced conscription into the Russian armed forces.
The scale of the Russian battlefield casualties is wholly out of line with modern Western military expectations. The West places a premium on short, decisive war-fighting, taking great care to minimize losses. Russian military strategy, in contrast, is still largely governed by Soviet-era doctrines of human wave-style assaults with massed infantry and artillery overwhelming the opposing force’s defenses.
These crude tactics have evolved recently in Bakhmut to become an even blunter instrument. New Russian assault units have been created to overpower Ukrainian defenses. Their new assaults have started, and are largely underwhelming. Scattered too thinly, the lack of a Russian concentration of force — in addition to superior western military equipment joining the fight over the coming weeks and months — will lead to even higher Russian casualties.
Russia began the war with approximately 150,000 men. Current estimates of Russian losses are almost 200,000 killed, wounded, and missing; an initial force turnover of 130 per cent within twelve months.
During the first few weeks of the renewed Russian offensives, between 800 and 1,000 Russians have been killed and wounded each day. Some days casualties have nudged over the 1,000 mark. That’s well in excess of 20,000 per month. To put these figures into context, these daily rates exceed even those sustained in proportion to the numbers fighting during the battle of the Somme in 1916.
Russia can only sustain these numbers if they recruit more fighting men. There are rumors of a further round of forced conscriptions to bring an additional 500,000 to the front. Putin already agreed to raise the age of conscription from 27 to 30 last year.
Russia mobilized up to 300,000 conscripts by last autumn, and many of those will now have replenished the depleted Russian ranks. However, it is estimated that up to 700,000 Russian males fled Russia to avoid the drafts last year, terrified of being sent into Putin’s meat-grinder in eastern Ukraine. This takes the figure to almost one million young Russian males lost as a direct consequence of Putin’s ill-conceived war.
As of January 2022, one month before the war, Russia had seven and a half million fighting age males able to be conscripted. In just twelve months that figure has shrunk to six and a half million. If the war continues at present rates there won’t be much of a young male Russian society left.
Robert Clark is the Director of the Defence and Security Unit at Civitas. He previously served in the British military
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The Russians murdered 4,000,000 Ukrainians in the Holodomor, a word derived from 'to kill by starvation' and the Russians are doing it again:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It's a good thing that "NATO" troops aren't in Ukraine and "NATO" weapons aren't in Ukraine bc that way there will be no deaths of foreign soldiers and no destroyed foreign equipment.
Yeah. And, yanno... That would be starting WWIII if we stop pretending that Ukraine is just defending itself and they made it all official like.
But try explaining that to either of the two inbreeders left in the RWED here that have been bouncing on Ukrainian flagpoles while jerking each other off for the last 365 days.
Kherson torture centers were planned by the Russian state, say lawyers
The lawyers said on Thursday they had investigated 20 torture chambers in Kherson and concluded they were part of a “calculated plan to terrorize, subjugate and eliminate Ukrainian resistance and destroy Ukrainian identity”.
“The mass torture chambers, financed by the Russian state, are not random but rather part of a carefully thought-out and financed blueprint with a clear objective to eliminate Ukrainian national and cultural identity,” said the British barrister Wayne Jordash, who is leading the team.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/kherson-torture-centres-
were-planned-by-russian-state-say-lawyers
Attorney General Merrick Garland made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Friday, according to a Justice Department official, his second trip to the country after Russia invaded a little more than a year ago.
On Wednesday, Garland testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he believed the Russian government was committing crimes against humanity and said the Justice Department supports efforts by The Hague to investigate and prosecute those crimes.
The attorney general last went to Ukraine in June. During that trip, Garland announced that he was appointing Eli Rosenbaum, the top US so-called “Nazi hunter,” to lead a Justice Department team to identify and prosecute war criminals.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/merrick-garland-ukraine/
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Sources: CNN, The Guardian, Merrick Garland and the DOJ.
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I huess this is "later".
I've been trying to figure out how people can get "stuck" on certain ideas. I know that there are probably pathological emotional factors at work- SECOND blames Nixon, and by extension all Republicans, Trump voters ("Trumptards") and anyone who might be a Trump supporter for every evil thing he's done in his life, beginning wth Vietnam. The guy's got some deep twist in his mental makeup. And THUGR, AFAIK, is still trying to prove to "somebody" that he's military-worthy material.
But there are perfectly normal people with average backgrounds that wind up on extreme ends of one ideology or another, and I think a lot has to do with propaganda.
Take women. There certainly is, historically, a lot of bias against women. Women were prohibited from owning property, education, gathering, driving, birth control, etc. In some cases they still are. And women still face prejudice that keeps them from being considered equally. Under the drumbeat of feminism it's easy to focus entirely on the prejudices both large and small, and filter out everything else. After all, it's not like women have no evidence to back up their claim of being harassed and discriminated against. It's just that that's ALL they see.
Same with blacks. Everyday prejudice still exists. And if you're told, over and over, that the reason why you're treated a certain way has nothing to do with how you dress, how you talk, your education and diligence (or lack of) and criminal history, but that it's ALL due to your skin color ... well, there's plenty of evidence to bolster that opinion.
People who quite rightly (IMHO) think that the "establishment" is lying to them about politics and the economy (plenty of evidence for that!) jump to the idea that they're being lied to about... well.... everything, including long-established and useful science (yanno, chemistry, biology, physics). Why? Because it's easy to point out the big whopping lies being told by "the establishment" today.
I could say the same how Dems view Repubs, how young people view the elderly, etc.
For the longest time, I saw everything thru the lens of "efficiency". I assumed that the most "efficient" organism/economy/society would outcompete, survive and evolve. I thought I was looking at something fundamental and inescapable. It wasn't until I realized that pefectly adapated highly efficient systems are fragile and don't survive shock that that assumptiopn fell away. And I go there by looking at nature, which tossed up a multitude of creatures that ALMOST fill the same niche ... diversity and redundancy creates robustness which out-survives efficency.
It's not that there's no evidence at all for a POV. There's PLENTY. It's just that it's HIGHLY FILTERED.
Life is complicated. The real world is complicated. It tosses up lots and lots and lots and lots of events, facts, factoids, correlations etc. It's like looking at clouds: you can see aything you want.
"Give me white noise and the right filters and I can show you anything you want".
I guess one way to get out of those kinds of traps is to seriously consider thoughts tht fall outside of a preferred pattern.
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Quote:Signym, you are confused. I have not done anything evil in my life, but if you know something about me that I have forgotten, write it down and tell me, right now, because I am really curious. In contrast, Putin, Nixon, Bush II, and Trump have done many evil things and those evil deeds are well documented in print and video.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I huess this is "later".
I've been trying to figure out how people can get "stuck" on certain ideas. I know that there are probably pathological emotional factors at work- SECOND blames Nixon, and by extension all Republicans, Trump voters ("Trumptards") and anyone who might be a Trump supporter for every evil thing he's done in his life, beginning wth Vietnam. The guy's got some deep twist in his mental makeup. And THUGR, AFAIK, is still trying to prove to "somebody" that he's military-worthy material. . . .
When I see a Trumptard struggling to stay in the middle-class, 6ixStringJack for example, I blame them for their problems. I do not blame the system. When Russians kill and torture Ukrainians, I blame Russians, not the US. I don't do the absurd mental tricks Signym uses of claiming the Ukrainians are Nazis or US puppets getting punished for being evil. Signym, you have got some kind of mental glitch that causes you to confuse up with down, or get cause and effect reversed, or get Ukraine invading Russia.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
For the longest time, I saw everything thru the lens of "efficiency". I assumed that the most "efficient" organism/economy/society would outcompete, survive and evolve. I thought I was looking at something fundamental and inescapable. It wasn't until I realized that pefectly adapated highly efficient systems are fragile and don't survive shock that that assumptiopn fell away. And I go there by looking at nature, which tossed up a multitude of creatures that ALMOST fill the same niche ... diversity and redundancy creates robustness which out-survives efficency.
Six-Sigma & Globalism in a nutshell.
Everything is fine until it's not fine. Spend decades stripping away all redundancy and contingency plans to bolster the bottom line for shareholders, and then after decades of resting on your laurels perched atop what much greater men than you built, employ a bunch of diversity hires with no (diverse) knowledge or (diverse) skills to replace people who knew what they were doing and how to fix things and you're left with Biden*'s America and a global infrastructure that is in tatters.
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Originally posted by second:
I have not done anything evil in my life
Just what an evil person would say. Get fucked, liar.
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When I see a Trumptard struggling to stay in the middle-class, 6ixStringJack for example, I blame them for their problems.
I blame myself for my problems. That's how I end up fixing them.
I'm having no problem staying in the middle class.
Everything is paid for. My net worth for my age is well beyond both the median and the mode for my age group, and I haven't drawn a paycheck since June of 2019.
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Karen Shakhnazarov, director general of studio Mosfilm, said individuals arguing that the West was about to fall or that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was simply a puppet were "deluding" themselves.
This attitude is rarely seen on Russian state TV as guests regularly predict the demise of Western nations like the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany, allies who have committed to supporting Ukraine's war effort.
The video has been viewed more than 500,000 times since being posted on Thursday by BBC journalist Francis Scarr.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-state-tv-lose-war-karen-sh
akhnazarov-west-1785300
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That's what I thought.
Enjoy the weekend because it's back to work on Monday for you, drone.
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Vladimir Putin called a special meeting of the National Security Council on Thursday, amid speculation that Russia could officially declare war on Ukraine and order a further mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops for the army.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, when asked by journalists whether the gathering of senior defense officials would upgrade what Moscow continues to call a "special military operation," said: "I don't know, I can't say."
It is a punishable offense in Russia to refer to Moscow's offensive in Ukraine as a war.
https://www.poncacitynews.com/news/putin-calls-security-council-meetin
g-after-accusing-ukraine-terror
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Quote:Social Security pays me $4,555 on the third Wednesday of each month. My wife will get the same after her 70th birthday. That's $9,110 per month. 6ix, we could adopt you as our 5th child since our Social Security for one month is more than enough to pay your entire yearly living expenses.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's what I thought.
Enjoy the weekend because it's back to work on Monday for you, drone.
(Whoops! I checked with my oldest daughter. She said that she doesn't want a brother who is a loser. The adoption is off the table. Sorry, 6ix.)
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