The below URL was sent to me over 1.5 months ago. This comes from a Ukrainian friend who was in the Spetznats for Russia when he was young.
As you will see, the number of dead Russians is approaching 500,000. Tanks, are approaching 8,000, and seeing the videos on this thread, it is no mystery. Ukraine is kicking the sh*t out of Russian tanks. Longevity of life for a Russian as a tank trooper in Ukraine must be like one month or less. What a meat grinder.
To put it in perspective, the USA lost 340,000 military in 3.5 years during WWII, perhaps our most brutal modern day war excluding the Civil War. Even Vietnam, we lost 59,000 over a 11-12 year period or so. If you are as old as me, we watched the war and its stats every night on the nightly news, with glimpses of videos of the death and destruction. These numbers for Russia are dramatic, but Putin is lying to the Russian people. They have no idea what is going on. They so desperately want to believe what their media is telling them, like 50% of the people here in the USA dancing over the outcome from yesterday. And the numbers Russians see are nothing remotely like what are on the chart below.
Ignorance is bliss. My wife asked me how long I thought this war would go on? I said up to about 8 more years. It will take that long for either Putin to die, or Russia to begin running out of money. History is repeating itself again(thinking of Russia's effort in Afghanistan in the 80s), only this time, it is costing the USA taxpayer a huge amount of money!!
And hoping Trump gets in and ends it in 24 hours like he claims. More empty Trump rhetoric. Just like ending the H1-b Visa Program.
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