You say that loosing the 1% of the population as KIA and disabled is peanuts?
In a war of survival, against their super-sized neighbor, almost a year-long war, and relative to the available number of military-age men. Yes, peanuts. NATO doesnt care about percentages, it just wants to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian
What is the size of the army now, two million maybe ? or three now ?
That's not important. What's most important IMO is how big is the pool Ukraine can draw from to replenish their losses without collapsing. From what I am seeing, the number is easily 5+ million if Western funding continues.
Are you serious ?Everyone tried to escape Ukraine prior of 2014, since 91, no one wants to live there, only raw force and lack of options keeping them in the trenches.
Irrelevant. That's probably the same thing Putin was thinking and he triggered the war. I would suggest not repeating past mistakes.
People don't want to be there you say. Maybe its true, maybe its not. In reality though, Ukraine now has 25 million inside. Any immigrant to the West is mostly women, children and elderly, leaving the males to stay in Ukraine
They have to keep units everywhere around the perimeter, so compared to the size of the army the left reserves is not so big, considering that there is a NEED for working infrastructure, without rail, roads, electricty it is not possible to move armor
Is Russia inflicting 400k casualties per month? If not then the reserves are ok, they can be trained and then sent to the frontline where they will have a baptism of fire (yeah, many casualties).
As for infrastructure, that's why Ukraine can't sent all of its military-age men to the army. I would say with Western funding, they can probably draw a max 40%. That's 5+ million men.
And finally, the whole calculation is based on that you ahve million whom willing to die for Uncle Sam. For what benefit ?
No. What they see, hear, and being told, and from social pressure, is that they fight for the survival of their country, families, children, women, elderly. You know, the usual propaganda
That they actually fight for the US we of course know about it. For them though, they think that they fight for their country lol. Just a matter of perspective
Mate, if Russia really wants to speed up the grinds they can start to bomb cities, and kill the possible recruits. Like as happened in Germany during the WW2
Not that dramatic stuff, but if (I don't have good memory) you were here when this clown war and the thread started, I said something similar of how to conduct the war from day 1 when the war started. So don't complain to me, you and I know to who to point the finger to blame for this.
That they don't do this now is probably because the West would utilise its soft power outrage machine to drown Russia diplomatically
And they have nuclear bombs, means the speed of the destruction of Ukrainan manpower is only matter of urgency, not lack of means
Same as above reason. PR and optics
