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Post by YankeeFan on Feb 26, 2024 14:05:07 GMT
Where can I get one of these flags?
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Post by batman on Feb 26, 2024 15:11:03 GMT
Is he lying? Should be support his lies?
300,000 Russians seems like a fair estimate (maybe even low) based off their equipment losses and tactics. They've lost almost 15,000 pieces of equipment — trucks, tanks, planes, helicopters, ships, boats, etc. — many of which almost assuredly included the loss of the crew. And that's just the stuff we know about.
The Ukrainians have lost about a third of that number.
Then if you look at their tactics, which are straight out of the Zapp Brannigan playbook, you have to infer that their infantry losses are staggering. They're constantly employing human wave attacks with poorly-trained troops whose only real motivation — for a while, at least — is to not die. It's like the entire Russian army is a bunch of World War I re-enactors playing the Battle of Verdun, with a mix of Stalinist World War II "encouragement" urging them toward the front. By any metric, their offensives have been Pyrrhic victories at best and utter disasters at worst.
So, considering all of that, the number for the Russians is quite plausible.
I'm a little skeptical of the Ukrainian number. Campaigns like this normally favor the defense, and the Ukrainians have certainly been killing more Russians than the other way around. But a 10-1 ratio seems rather high, especially considering some of the siege-type battles we've seen at places like Mariupol and Avdiivka. I would've thought it'd be closer to 100,000 Ukrainians killed. Could be that the Ukrainians have been able to hold those places for a long time with smaller forces, though, because of Russian ineptitude, and when the dust settles they lose far fewer men and materiel than the Russians even though they've lost the battle.
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Post by btexpress on Feb 26, 2024 16:43:32 GMT
Since Ukraine also is using the Hamas playbook of human shields, you have to unfortunately assume that its civilian casualties are very high. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians/There's always outrage when one of these buildings with "дети" (children) on the roof is bombed, but those buildings are also housing military bases. It's a win-win for Ukraine's forces. Either they don't get bombed, or they get a PR boost.
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Post by YankeeFan on Mar 22, 2024 21:03:29 GMT
Wait until you hear what they are asking of Israel.
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Post by btexpress on Mar 22, 2024 23:55:17 GMT
Heh. Ukraine should just say, "Get your boots on our ground or STFU."
The U.S. never stops with its meddling.
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Post by YankeeFan on Jun 1, 2024 14:58:09 GMT
This has driven me crazy since day one of this war.
If we'd given Ukraine the assistance that we are giving them now, right off of the bat, maybe it would have made a difference.
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Post by ecwyanks on Jun 1, 2024 23:51:45 GMT
Heh. Ukraine should just say, "Get your boots on our ground or STFU." The U.S. never stops with its meddling. Ukraine didn't ask for help?
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Post by btexpress on Jun 2, 2024 4:54:09 GMT
That was in response to the US asking Ukraine to stop attacking Russian energy infrastructure.
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Post by ecwyanks on Jun 2, 2024 20:29:55 GMT
that's good as lomg as Russia is cool with the couple billion the Us sent after the breakup of the USSR. don't want anyone to think of USA as imperialistic pigs
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Post by YankeeFan on Jun 11, 2024 0:47:37 GMT
I'm a little surprised by this.
We insisted that Iran's money was Iran's money, and had to be returned to them.
But somehow we can just take Russia's?
But, assuming you're willing to do this, then I agree with Kasparov. Give them the help already. Stop doling it out in dribs and drabs.
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Post by btexpress on Jun 11, 2024 2:15:49 GMT
I'm a little surprised by this. We insisted that Iran's money was Iran's money, and had to be returned to them. But somehow we can just take Russia's? But, assuming you're willing to do this, then I agree with Kasparov. Give them the help already. Stop doling it out in dribs and drabs. We've never met a double standard we couldn't rationalize or just ignore. Insurrections with the intent of overthrowing a democratically elected president were good (Ukraine 2014) before they were bad (U.S., 2021).
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