You are talking about media that calculated that there are millions of Uyghurs in camps, and that Taliban suffered so much losses in the hands of NATO that they don't have manpower to capture all of Afghanistan.I genuinely think discussing alleged casualty counts released to the public is mostly pointless since the data is not verifiable by any of us here. Your KIA guesses just seem to be based on alleged casualty counts published by news agencies, but with a range of a couple thousand. My question to you would be how could you possibly independantly verify these published figures?
Typically a real time assessment of casualties in war requires officers commanding in the field to regularly send casualty reports to their higher command. The higher command can then aggregate the reports and pass it on up until we get a final casualty report. This process in a large army could involve hundreds or thousands of officers sending reports on a somewhat regular basis. My point is a cumulative casualty report should have hundreds if not thousands of reports/documents supporting it. Do you really think the Russian or Ukrainian military are going to release their internal reports/documents in the middle of a war?
The above paragraph also assumes that casualty reports are even being produced. I doubt that the top priority of Ukrainian troops encircled in Mariupol is submitting a timely and accurate casualty report. In similar dire situations military units may simply be unable to produce a casualty report due to being destroyed or losing communications with higher command. Another problem could be documentation being lost/destroyed or falling behind paperwork due to an overburdened or failing command and control system.
An alternative casualty counting method is to analyze medical data instead of military casualty reports. But again, do you really think the Russian or Ukrainian military are going to release their internal medical reports/documents in the middle of a war? A break down of the military medical system would also rapidly inflate casualties. Care to guess the WIA (wounded in action) counts or the number of soldiers in a hospital bed right now? What is the state of the Russian and Ukrainian military medical system (shrugs, we don't know)?
The last resort in casualty counting is to simply perform a population census after the war is over.
The other complicating factor is Russian air superiority and artillery difference. Has the Russian military established a decisive advantage in firepower over the Ukrainian forces? Historical battles show that the side with a major advantage in firepower can inflict a disproportionate amount of casulaties (we are talking 3x, 5x or in extreme cases 10x the casualties). This is why many were extremely skeptical of early alleged casualty counts where Russian losses were many times higher than Ukrainian losses for no apparant reason. Sure NATO can keep sending MANPADS or ATGMS to Ukraine, but they can't replace the warplanes, artillery or tank losses.
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You are talking about media that calculated that there are millions of Uyghurs in camps, and that Taliban suffered so much losses in the hands of NATO that they don't have manpower to capture all of Afghanistan.
Fucking idiots I tell you. The mere fact that these bozos, and losers thought that volunteering in a hot war zone, against a military juggernaut is the height of utter stupidity combined with a massive dose of ignorance. Which further solidifies my disgust for these types of folks who grew up in relative comfort living in a very safe city of Hong Kong, likewise to most folks who live in the western world. They have no appreciation of how relatively lucky, and privileged they are compared to most folks around their age.
Comparing German invasion of Ukraine SSR especially Kiev with the current one is unfair mainly because of the Russians using Belarus as their staging point to attack Kiev with Belarus bordering the Ukrainian capital, while Germans literally started their invasion through Poland and they had to push back and encircle many Soviet units before they reach Kiev
I'm pretty sure that's Russian VDV BMDsUkrainian armour still hiding among flats this time covered with carpets for extra concealment.
I think it's just like how they managed COIVD: half incompetence, half deliberate attempt to weed out the idiots in their society social Darwinism style. The elites aren't gonna let these people stay and turn into alt-right rednecks - they already had a taste of that Jan 6, 2021.
Folks are just in a state of shock that their precious Europe is experiencing what they have almost been doing their entire existence, and that's war. They thought they were beyond civilized, end of history and all that liberal clap trap. They simply drank their own kool-aid.
I watched the complete video on this. JM had a talk with a bunch of Ole timers like Ray McGovern, and a couple of geriatrics who served in the U.S. military and intelligence discussing the Russian special operations kick the Nazis out of Ukraine.
Anything that comes from pro-Ukraine related media should be taken with a grain of salt the size of Texas..
Damn his wife is pretty. Dude must be really funny, or something lol
The mans got game!
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