re: Russian casualties are well over 1 million now.

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I just think it’s funny that the mighty Russians are now dependent on North Korean soldiers on the front lines and Laotian soldiers behind the front lines to beat their neighbor that has 1/4the the population as them.


And to think we have been scared of Russia

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As I do. Man for man, Russia is the most overrated inept force the world has ever seen.

Why we've given 300 BN dollars to Z, I'll never understand.

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I don't believe this number for one moment. Their reported/estimated size is only 1.5 mil active and 2 mil reservists.

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Russia has had a draft since 1918. Since 2022 they raised the amount of conscriptions per year and raised the age of their draftees to 30. This year 160,000 men had been drafted by April. New conscripts will die at a higher rate, because they are putting them on or near the frontlines.

Russia, Storm-Z, and Wagner have used between 140,000 to 180,000 untrained prisoners. The prisoner casualties will come at a higher rate compared to the active and reservist. The percentage of death and wounded will be higher, because they are untrained and put on the frontlines.

Russia has not reported all the causalities from their Navel Vessels correctly either. Ukrainians sunk the air craft carrier Moskva in a storm and the Russians reported 18 dead. It sunk fast, because the ammunition on board exploded.

The numbers for the paramilitary, North Korean’s, and Chechen’s should be pretty accurate. Wagner had between 15,000 and 20,000 killed and around 40,000 wounded. NK has had around 600 killed and around 4,000 wounded.

Just looking at those numbers it seems that 1,000,000 plus could be accurate

Russia putting ill equipped untrained men on the frontlines, not working together, and fighting between themselves are major reasons the Russians have high casualties.

Ukrainian numbers are probably higher than they have reported too.

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Good Lord. Your own numbers get you nowhere close to a million.

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Right now there are over 250,000 paramilitary and mercenary forces fighting for Russia. Paramilitary and mercenary groups are made up of Russians, Africas. Muslims Cubans, Chinese, etc… Paramilitary and mercenaries have been sending troops to the frontlines since 2014. Since 2022 they have been sending untrained troops to the frontlines.

Wagner had 85,000 troops and 40,000 were killed or injured by April 2023. A lot of the casualties were in Bukhmut where untrained prisoners were sent to the frontlines. If they didn’t try to advance they were shot.

In the last 3 1/2 years there has been at least 100,000 paramilitary casualties and they don’t makeup a 10th of the troops sent to the Ukraine.

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Do you really believe the Russian to Ukrainian casually ratio is three to one? Frankly, a one-to-one ratio would be a win for Ukraine.

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I don’t believe three to one, but it has to be worse for Russia than one to one. For the majority of the time Russia has been on offense, and unless it results in routs, offense yields more casualties. Also, Ukraine has had the more sophisticated weapons.