Post B6ZoYrcE0ripZsFOoy by log@mastodon.sdf.org
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 (DIR) Post #B6ZVN7Go5NJNWcujQW by stux@mstdn.social
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       Holy shitIn #Russia's #war against #Ukraine, Russia has lost 221,206 soldiers, confirmed. The actual number could be closer to ~350,000 :amaze: That is more then the total US combat related deaths in World War 2..
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ZVhZpjb6fpu90WuW by trebach@functional.cafe
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       @stux They just throw people into the war without planning. They lost that many in the Winter War against Finland which only lasted a little over 3 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_WarTheir incompetence is part of what made Hitler think invading the Soviet Union was a good idea
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ZVoprkO5fLehPUWW by stux@mstdn.social
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       @trebach Those number are so insane All human lives
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ZWOXrcnP5WFSNeiG by nf3xn@mastodon.social
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       @stux The crazy thing is Ukraine gives very conservative estimates, and people are reprimanded for false claims. They do not take into account how many Russians the Russians kill. They shell their own positions, they execute their wounded, their Akhmat blocking troops kill, they frag their officers and Akhmat, they die doing stupid drunk shit, they get killed by partisans, they get hazed to death, they even eat each other in the trenches... it goes on. You can probably double the Ukraine number.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ZX9uGzITtbMKpMrg by rose@linuxrocks.online
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       @stux Soviet war dead in WW2 - including civilians, including non-Russian states - often cited as 27 million. Give or take, that's two decimal orders of magnitude greater than this conflict. My pont: the ability to shock would seem to be a strong function of what seems normal to you based upon what you've seen before.My personal opinion is that even one death is too many in this case.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ZagJSBVlg4aJD0mO by su_liam@mas.to
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       @stux Too bad for those soldiers and their families. Perhaps. Happy for Putinstan. Glad it’s happening to them.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ZoYrcE0ripZsFOoy by log@mastodon.sdf.org
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       @stux If Russia has 3.3 million active and reserve military, that's a nationwide self-inflicted decimation.  That's more than 10% of the active military, for sure.  At some point, they just run out of warm bodies to throw into the grinder.  Or they can't physically transport them all to a place where it would be convenient for Ukraine to kill them.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6aLnw3t3s3QCLyr56 by ariarhythmic@ohai.social
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       @stux Only 221k? You'd think they'd have tossed several millions into the meat grinder by now
       
 (DIR) Post #B6hOkDXKHqeiZM8gVM by MiriShuli@mstdn.social
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       @stux The real number is 1.3 million.  They lose between 800/1300 a day.  Zelensky's goal is 1500 a day. They cannot replace that many fast enough.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6uUCjbtelGWyiAoLo by seepr@toot.community
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       @stux yep and Ukraines casualties are low 30k by comparison. Extremely good army.