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What's shocking is that Russia's death toll has topped, I believe, 200,000. To put that in perspective, unhappiness with the death toll and the cost to the economy of the war in Afghanistan is seen as being instrumental to bringing down the Soviet Union. Russia lost - and I was gobsmacked when...

Putin’s point of reference is WWII when 27 million Soviets were killed, including family members. He’s willing to let many more Russians die for their country and this time none from his family.

I suspect he feels the reckoning will only come with the war's end, so he has to continue it. WWII was existential for them. Fight or die. As with Ukraine now, that's a motivator, to say the least. But Afghanistan, Ukraine... as the aggressor, Russia can stop at any point with no loss to itself.

They may have no choice. They're unable now to make up for the troops they're losing, so their army is shrinking. To make it worse for them, many countries from which they were harvesting troops on false promises of employment have now put a stop to them doing that. Putin daren't introduce a...

... new conscription programme, not least because to be effective he'd probably have to start looking at cities like Moscow and St Petersburg, and false claims to territorial gains that involved shoving a few individuals over the front line and getting them to plant a flag as deep into Ukrainian...

. “According to estimates by Mediazona, BBC Russian Service, and Meduza, as of the end of August 2025, at least 219,000 Russians had been killed in the war: primarily men of working and reproductive age.”

Cont’d “The indirect losses are on an even larger scale: for every soldier killed, several are seriously wounded, many of whom are left disabled and unable to work. They are also likely to live shorter lives than they would have under normal circumstances.”

BILL CLINTON REPORTEDLY WILL REVEAL UNDER OATH THAT TRUMP GIVES BETTER HEAD THAN MONICA. AND SWALLOWS WHEN MONICA REFUSED TO. OBVIOUSLY. IE BLUE DRESS

The one thing American is definitely taken away from Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine Russia couldn’t fight their way out of a foxhole Tactically, I’m sure our military is evaluating their failures and strategically planning

Trump has been working with/for - you choose! - Putin for 10 years now. Either way, he is the shittiest President to ever exist and any monument he builds over the next 3 years will be torn down the instant his fat fascist ass is gone.

I’m looking forward to this happening. Ukraine can take their entire military & start changing over nuke sites to nuclear energy that can change to cold fusion as soon as that is actually possible… They’ll probably want to sell energy to rebuild Ukraine into the strongest country in Europe.

A lot of dead poor Russian peasants. Mostly from Dagestan and other brown areas. And prisoners, who seem to be societal outcasts/defectives. Sad, really. Putin should lead, and die, on the front.

1.2m Russian dead, they say. Give that context, the population of Birmingham, England is c1.18m. So the equivalent of the people of an entire city wiped out to justify a little man’s ego.

With a fully engaged American backing and no tolerance for Putin's nonsense, Ukraine would have already ended this. So awful that this just keeps going.

Not too mention their almost unfathomable loss of equipment. Hell, if you took every tank they have lost, and put them end to end, it would stretch almost 70 miles. Think about that for a second.

Trump will be imprisoned for the rest of his life; "if not", history will repeat itself with everyone else involved in the cover up and Pam Bondi imprisoned for life; but, history May be altered after Trump loses midterms an commits suicide in his new Epstein ballroom bunker" or "assassinated"!

And Putin has set the groundwork for calling up 2 million reservists. That's going to go over really well. They already have a huge labor shortage. Out of people and equipment. Russia is losing (kia or injured) about 35,000 troops a month.

Putin is committing national suicide. Losing 30k soldiers per month, his economy is rotting from within and Russia has become a Chinese vassal state. Putin is too weak to stop the war so the hollowing out of Russia continues.

The Ukrainian military is the most impressive fighting force on planet Earth. They’ve held off the world’s second largest military for four years, losing only roughly 20% of their territory and inflicting some 3-to-4 times the casualties on Russian forces. With some drones, kids, old men and women

Cool. Too bad the party you voted with and the guy you voted for twice don’t support Ukraine, or democracy or having sex with adults. Republicans were shitty before, shittier now for sure, tho. You hope the party just gets back to being shitty? Fuck you

If I had been president, when Russian forces were staging on the border, I would have sent in NATO forces including U.S. troops as a buffer to prevent a war. We all allowed this to happen and we all have blood on our hands.