https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/russia-troop-deaths.html WASHINGTON — In 36 days of fighting on Iwo Jima during World War II, nearly 7,000 Marines were killed. Now, 20 days after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia invaded Ukraine, his military has already lost more soldiers, according to American intelligence estimates. The conservative side of the estimate, at more than 7,000 Russian troop deaths, is greater than the number of American troops killed over 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Russian soldiers don't a bullshit war. Russian troops ‘shoot themselves in legs’ to avoid fighting in Ukraine Some Russian soldiers have reportedly been resorting to desperate, violent measures to try and escape the Ukraine conflict. Morale is so low among invading Russian forces that soldiers have reportedly been shooting themselves in the legs to avoid fighting – using Ukrainian ammunition to make it appear they were hit by the defenders.
Everyone knows you put your underpants on your head, pencils up your nose and only say "wibble". I actually have great sympathy for those kids. Through I have a lot of military history in my family I chose to not sign up to a regular army myself. Just the wildlife ranger stuff and other bits. It's only a matter of time before you are ordered to do something wrong, as a well brought up person would see it, that you will regret for the rest if your life. This was on advice from a couple of family peers. I've killed but except for one time when the round was flying and a guy jumped off a truck roof into it, I never did anything I didn't intend in the moment. That said, if I were Ukranian faced with Putin, I'd join. If I were Russian, I'd try and sabotage them I hope.
I see plenty of Armour blown to pieces and two civilians, zero dead Russian soldiers. Show me the actual bodies that you claim are laying all over the countryside.
Our military and government "experts" are famous for exaggerating enemy body count. More propaganda from the West. We're giving Putin a run for his money when it comes to bullshit. Show me the bodies that people are claiming to be littering the countryside, thousands upon thousands of them left to rot, or so is the claim. Shouldn't be all that difficult for someone in the area to have grabbed a photo. I'll believe it when I see it and I haven't seen anything that would even remotely suggest the body counts being claimed. Let's just say that the Ukrainians are putting up a hell of a fight, much more than anyone expected, especially Putin. That in and of itself deserving of our respect. We don't need bullshit added on.
They should be doing it regardless of where Russia is firing from if they have that capability. Doubt they do however. So wait... does that mean if Putin has his boys pop a theater nuke inside Ukraine, the West is committed, like an attack on a NATO country?
Heres the thing with those long range missiles, how many do they have if they’re using their new hypersonic missiles? Just saying, you don’t normally break out something like that unless 1. The isklander or however you spell it is ineffective or 2. You’re running low on effective long range missiles because the Russians theoretically would not like for the west to have info on the newer missiles. Or not, who knows…
They're comparing apples to orchards. Iwo Jima is about 8 square miles in size and had 21K well fortified Japanese troops that had spent nearly a year preparing for the inevitable invasion. We also bombed the spit out of it (to little avail) before the amphibious assault. But it makes for good print on the front page of the NYT's.