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  They have lost over 110,000 soldiers.sending in half a million untrained people will just get you to 200,000 or 300,000 even faster.
  The only problem you are giving the defenders is body disposal.
context: I doubt Putin even considered what their work force or demographics will look like in 5 years.
  It will essentially be non-existent, but I suppose being on your deathbed you really don't give a shit. >
  
  If he takes over Ukraine, he can claim those as his own. For him it's just a numbers game: how many troops lost vs how many people conquered. If he conquers enough, who cares about the fallen. Certainly not the Kremlin >
  
  It's just over the top propaganda, no one in the Western world 🌎 believes any of this shit.
  It makes me wonder if ANY ONE anywhere takes this crap seriously. >
  
  Welcome to the meat grinder. >
  
  Ukraine economy must be doing gang busters over the recent sale of sunflower seeds. >
  
  So. The next question is: How many Russians will flee the country this time? >
  
  They might close the borders this time. >
  
  That would require them to learn from past mistakes. Are we sure they can do that? >
  
  Russia will conduct this war exactly the same as they conduct all war. Attrition and dead soldiers. They won't stop until they have killed hundreds of thousands of their troops and run out of money. It's going to take months/ years before this war ends. Tragic. >
  
  Ukraine has to survive just one particular Russian. >
  
  This view is parroted endlessly but highly likely to be false. In fact Putin's successor may well be worse. >
  
  
  This view is parroted endlessly but highly likely to be false. In fact Putin's successor may well be worse.
  
  You don't see the big picture.
  Putin's successor might be worse, but there would be a pretty long time between Putin's death and the successor getting enough control to do anything.
  This would give Ukraine the opportunity to remove the remaining Russian forces from their territory while Russian leadership would be preoccupied with internal affairs. >
  
  It's also very optimistic to think that Putin would die and then a successor would just be lined up and take his place, dictators don't have successors lined up for very good reasons, Putin dying would likely result in significant infighting.
  If this was the point you were making then I apologize. >
  
  Unless it's Medvedev I do see a lot of infighting, except for the fact that Putin killed half of his oligarchs. >
  
  Medvedev is seen as a joke by ordinary Russians. >
  
  Smart of Ukraine to announce this to scare mobik-aged men to flee Russia now. >
  
  The US had 282K military casualties during the heaviest fighting years in Vietnam (1965-1974). 
  That equates to an average of ~86 losses per day.
  Russia average so far has been ~347 per day. Over 4 times as many.
  Winter is already exacting a heavy toll Russia's genocide: Average military dead per day has more than doubled in the last month and the worst of the winter is yet to come.
  Their veteran troops are all but spent. The ones being sent now are undertrained (if they are trained at all) and underequipped.
  The recently enslaved soldiers have been forced to provide their own winter equipment or go without.
  Russian losses should be hitting around 130,000 by the one year anniversary of this "three day conflict".
  Even without considering the permanent loss of over a hundred thousand Russians they're taking hundreds of thousands of workers out of the workforce which will impact every industry in Russia when things are already tight.
  What will it take for the Russian people to take action? >
  
  The US only had about 50k dead in Vietnam. Russia already has over 100k killed. >
  
  I believe that's using 'casualties' to mean both dead and wounded; the 50k figure is only dead, in the more common use of the term. >
  
  I wish we would bring back casualties and fatalities in discussions, makes it much clearer. >
  
  Militaries use casualties to mean deaths and injured because in their minds both are equally useless on the battlefield. 
  Though I agree with you. Most people aren’t military and aren’t aware this is what it means. It can be unintentionally misleading. >
  
  An injured soldier is useless and requires other able bodied soldiers to render aid. A dead soldier doesn't need aid. >
  
  Except Russians seem to not be helping many of their injured. Leaving them to die >
  
  They don't have a lot of assistance to offer with the supplies they are being given. >
  
  Cannon fodder >
  
  How would they even pay or supply them?
  Considering it’s said Putin himself has admitted the last draft was a mistake, how does that make sense? >
  
  Pay won't be an issue. Kinda hard to pay those six feet under >
  
  They aren’t burying them that deep either >
  
  Good thing siberia is defrosting - they'll need that space for the new graveyards. >
  
  Bold of you to assume they won't just abandon their dead >
  
  Bold of you to assume they'll acknowledge that they died >
  
  Ooff >
  
  Still no answer for HIMARS. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 91%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Vadym Skibitsky, Ukraine's deputy military intelligence chief, said Ukraine believed the conscripts would be part of a string of Russian offensives over the spring and summer in the east and south of the country.
  Russia has denied it is preparing a second wave of mobilisation, with Putin saying last month it was "Pointless" to talk about a new call-up, claiming that only half of those already mobilised had been sent to Ukraine.
  Much will also depend, he said, on the continued supply of western ammunition and weaponry to Ukraine in order to equip the new reserve units Ukraine is preparing.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Ukraine^#1 Russia^#2 mobilisation^#3 Russian^#4 military^#5 >
  
  I am just curious if we can come to a total number (in this case Russians) of bereft people who are left behind, family, friends, loved ones, dependents.
  There must be statistics. I feel ashamed when watching a Ukrainian drone strike with the feeling one for the team. In reality I guess where watching lots of
  mostly unwilling souls going to god or whatever you believe or don’t believe in, I don’t longer care. But this shame stays with me. >
  
  So has Putin gone through all the able-bodied men by now? Is he forcing teenagers and oldsters out there to get killed?
  A good leader leads by example, Poots... >
  
  That's a lot of Sunflowers. >
  
  Well if you were looking to do live realistic tests of your weapons, now is a good time for you... >
  
  The people in the photo look like residents of Zion from the matrix >
  
  Doesn’t mean they have the ammo or even uniforms. >
  
  Ah yes, the mobilization is a very popular thing in the motherland. It is going over quite well. In fact, no one was signing up to join the military so they are being forced instead! 
  Russia is being threatened by Ukraine who is being invaded by Russia! Therefore, Russia must swallow all of Ukraine up, destroy it’s infrastructure, kill its people, abduct its children, and steal all their stuff, they can finally be reunited with Russia once more and live happily in a pile of debris under occupation by Russia who is also killing them. It makes all the sense in the world.