Putin was the future but we kept thinking it's something from the past
vivalapivo
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Because I read the title and it did sound like what Israel has been saying for days
Sigh. 300,000 dead Russian soldiers have been named by independent media. A million dead is realistic. The number of casualties is in the millions. What number of 100,000s people dead passes the threshold for you?
Independent media like Zona named 112k, while, well, CSIS estimated 250k, which is well lesser than one million.
You too please have a good day and don't forget to drink enough water
11200 as-of now. Based on your estimate of real casualties= 3x identified casualties it's more likely to be 300-400 thousand which is already a devastating number way beyond the threshold you have mentioned.
It's just weird to remind that if a side, any side claims that it has 50 thousand casualties and the enemy is beyond one million, you are being fed with horseshit and you need to just stop eating it.
Win or lose, they're fucked for the next decades at least.
Who are 'they'? If you talk about people who decide to continue the war - not necessarily: the power and elite are cementing and the probability of toppling Putin is decreasing rapidly with each year of militarization.
If you talk about common people, then I agree, for regular russians that's a disaster, for a tiny minority - the last opportunity to get rich.
If you equate these categories, you are a delulu
Didn't think I would be alive to see anti-Israel post here
What's the difference between a soldier who did speak up and not? A difference between a German who critisized Hitler and not?
The answer is not very much. They all are dead. Stance does not make a difference. The US politics looks way beyond a point where having moral ground is meaningful.
Saw this happened in Russia: like 70-80% of various celebraties were speaking up against Putin's regime, meduza.io was the most popular news source, even in siloviki's (essentially ICE/FBI/police) spaces. Regime co-opted some, others ran away to be smug about their "political position".