The world allowing the few to massacre the many for their personal gain has to be what we reject in the 21st century. We need to start arresting and trying every war monger for the murders they are.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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Lost, huh?
Does that mean casualties? As in, not necessarily deaths?
Russia has lost 1,330 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day alone
I would assume the answer is 'yes.'
Fuck I hate the propaganda reporting on both sides.
I'm going against the grain here, but I just think this is really sad. A lot of these people will have been decent people, loved by decent people and some have been brainwashed. It's a horrible, terrible human cost cos of a dictator
PSA: Losses include dead AND wounded.
If wounded means combat ineffective, I'll take what I can get.
Putin is ok with these numbers, in fact they need to be higher.
They probably are higher.
Russia just gained 900,000 eligible women in his eyes.
More mail order bribes incoming.
And they all died because one psychopathic old fart simply just wanted to take over majority of or the entire country of another for personal gain.
Hey, that's not fair! Most of them were not killed, but only mutilated too much to be ableish-bodied enough for the russian army!
(Serious note: this is the casuality number, that includes deaths, but also soldiers with wounds that put them out of service, like lost legs)
And then they send the mutilated back out into the trenches literally.
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It's not mere personal gain with Putin. The man has a vision of returning Russia to glorious Soviet Union. Probably felt kicked in the balls when it all fell apart. Remember, he was the head of the KGB, an extraordinarily powerful man. Maybe even more powerful than the Premier? Dunno.
He likely felt he would quickly crush Ukraine, make them an example, and then move on to other lost, and weaker, countries.
When he SU fell apart he was clerk in stasi.
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Not nearly enough, but certainly welcome.
You have more in common with those soldiers than you do with the warpigs pulling the strings that led them to their deaths.
I'm pretty sure everybody on these websites knows they're more similar to enlisted soldiers than to Vladimir Putin.
Not everybody, according to some of the comments in this very post.
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have they looked under the couch?
There's only a JD Vance there.
Are they stupid? Just find them!
I find this difficult to believe. Edit: Wikipedia has a total (both sides) death toll of 160k-290k.
Casualties != Death
See first comment, 900K include wounded too.
As always that this topic gets discussed: dead and wounded
Title says "lost". I took that to mean killed.
This difficulty to believe it's actually quite fundamental to what's happening.
If you like, I invite you to imagine what would be the explanation if these numbers were true. (Even adjusted for being dead and wounded)
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Anyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up?
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~58,000
Interesting comparison. People cheering on those Russian deaths should also be cheering on those American deaths
From an odd point of view, I think it's been good that world war 2 happened, so that we lost our grip on a lot of countries. Such as Vietnam.
Can't really say that out loud tho aha
Also I wouldn't exist without world war 2.
If I didn't have sex with my wife on that specific night then my specific sperm cell wouldn't have gone into her specific egg cell.
Existential crisis intensifies
I don't think your existence depended on your having sex with your wife...
You might be right.. unless.. time travel 🤨
Plus about 300k "casualties", which is more apples to apples with the 900k Russians.
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Seeing as they are still on their murderous war of conquest, obviously not enough yet.
Good for Ukraine.
How many of those are From NK or are those numbers not counted?
Not officially as it's hard to determine the nationality. But it's a drop in a bucket as NK has seen very limited action in the Kursk region.
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