Aside from the bloodshed from Ukraine and Russia this war has also:
-Weakened Western European economies
-Driven much of the rest of the world towards China
-Continued the steady erosion of American hegemony.
Thanks Biden!
Also put thousands of weapons in the hands of far right militias in Eastern Europe
Ah but you see, costs can only ever be measured in dollars.
Geopolitical defeats, diplomatic disgrace, climate disasters? None of those have a dollar cost and thus don't exist!
propaganda works folks. casualties are estimated to be 10x higher for
than 
. three whole armies of equipment destroyed, the ukrainians threw away most of eastern europe's Soviet arsenal and nearly depleted amerika's reserve arsenal. death toll for this war is depressingNow im not doubting that Ukraine has been taking losses (even heavy ones) but is the 10x times higher losses number real ? Not trying to meme/shitpost im a noob when it comes to military matters and that number seems very unsustainable
I'm not a source by any means, but it kinda makes sense. Ukraine is losing civilians, not just soldiers.
We have no real idea, but we can make some educated guesses
We know for a fact that Ukraine is taking heavy casualties, they've had a bunch of waves of mobilizations while Russia has had one wave that just called up reservists. This is despite Russia being outnumbered at the beginning of the invasion. Ukraine has been constantly begging western countries for weapons but the West has been trickling in stuff so Ukraine often has to go without.
Artillery is what kills the most people in modern war. Russia is seems to be outshooting Ukraine 5:1 in general. Russia also has overall air superiority, althrough Ukraine's Soviet AA is keeping them from running roughshod. Russia is using it's advanced helicopters to great effect on the defense though. Russia also seems to have advantages in both quantity and overall quality of armor and armored vehicles. Ukraine has an absolute hodge-podge of vehicles which are very difficult to keep maintained and running, much less repaired. Russia has better drone recon and normal recon but Ukraine is being fed strategic info straight from US satellites and Polish AWACS so who knows who has the advantage there.
I think 10:1 is reasonable for Ukraine's current offensive. Ukraine is attacking heavily fortified Russian positions using green troops and still has all the same disadvantages it's had for the rest of the war. The NATO training that was provided to those brigades was absolutely awful and led to them driving face-first into minefields like they're Germans in the battle of Kursk. The troops training abroad couldn't get any real combat experience or even advice from veteran Ukrainian troops. The most successful UKR units (like the 128th) are those that aren't using the NATO doctrines and have gone back to normal Ukrainian tactics of heavily relying on forests and urban areas to avoid drone recon and artillery fire.
I can't emphasize enough how much NATO training fucked over the troops that were trained in it. They're still trying NATO-style assaults but they've gotten slightly smarter about it. Russia's defenses weren't a secret, they were visible from space. NATO knew what sort of equipment Ukraine had because NATO provided it. NATO knew that Ukraine didn't have the artillery or engineering equipment to punch through a minefield like that.
Russia has been heavily fortifying their positions for six months. They have 5 lines of defense in some areas. Ukraine's weeks of assaults haven't even reached the first line of defense, they've been stuck in back-and-forth fighting on the screening line. Ukraine has been advancing slowly and I think they will actually reach the first line of defense and finally see the dragon's teeth.
I don't think Ukraine is knocked out and I think Ukraine still has a goodly portion of NATO armored vehicles left. They'll likely be used in either one giant push in the counteroffensive or possibly used more defensively.
Here's a recent war map.
https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1672242762983301123
Another thing for doing your own research. Russia often doesn't include Wagner or Donbas republics losses in their official counts. I'm not sure if how they count Kadyrov's guys. Russia should be integrating all forces under it's Ministry of Defence soon(tm) though. I think that's a large part of what the recent excitement was about. Also remember the difference between fatalities (killed) and casualties (killed or injured).
Mearsheimer guesstimates at least 2:1. I think the 10:1 number is part of a game of ever more exaggerated claims by the posters from either side.
Logic:
some guys claim 10:1 artillery shelling at some point ⇒ extrapolate to all times and places, ignore other people who say 5:1 or whatever ⇒ since most people die from artillery shelling this means 10:1 losses/dead
you are correct to doubt that claim. its from a kremlin source that states 10:1 losses in terms of "irretrievable losses". it is likely exaggerated, as are western claims. since equipment loss is likely calculated in that maybe 8:1 or so in terms of casualties, but still, this war is disastrous for nato and we're all just guessing at numbers
Imagine taking %5 of the defense budget and putting it into healthcare
Probably wouldn’t affect very much, the US healthcare system is much bigger than $40B
If you put it into preventative medicine it would be huge though. Pay a little now to get someone's dental issues fixed, or pay a lot later when it progresses to a systemic infection or a heart attack. Vaccines, etc.
posting on the sub "White People Twitter" about how glad i am that my government gave money to fascist death squads
Whenever the front page of Reddit has unhinged, fascistic geopolitical posts, it’s usually from r/WhitePeopleTwitter and r/Europe
Let's be honest, there are a lot more possible sources for fascist posts than just 2 subreddits.
the front page of Reddit has unhinged, fascistic geopolitical posts
All you need to know
There's a very funny star in a very stupid building that says otherwise
That's a bonus. They where too uppity anyway with all those worker rights and codetermination.
the new measure of economic efficiency is how many foreign lives we can take per american lost
All that money and it's only 5% of what we spend on our defense budget. Truly staggering numbers.
They don't (or do) realize the amount of money put in has diminishing returns. At some point you'll be limited by real resources.
I'm sure that wherever that missing 40% of the military budget is going, it's being spent responsibly and carefully
First and foremost, there was at least one or two troops in the 1st Armored Reddit Brigade when they got got
Likely a bot. I've seen this exact argument word for word circulating online for about a year.
No wonder Redditors are so keen on AI taking over entertainment. They're so simple that they can be entertained by the same recycled phrases and references for the rest of their lives without ever being challenged.
These are the same people that call for civility with Republican politicians that work very hard to eradicate their own countrymen. Liberals are all about civility unless it's a foreigner.
ok but why would I want the government of a nuclear power to collapse
The US and UK are nuclear powers and I would very much like to see them collapse tho.
The UK doesn't really have nukes, as their nukes require the use of american satelites, so you don't really need to be concerned about it.
russia is going to lose/collapse/implode any day now you just wait. its definitely coming i saw it on msnbc
: ”I also choose this guy's dead wife and my axe!”
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