RangerRay
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Why not? Hungary is still allowed in the club…
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MilEME09
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so crazy idea, but the Canadian element of the Ukrainian Foreign legion is estimated 550+, many likely have LAV experience, let's donate a battalion of LAV's plus some for training. The training ones stay in Poland to train the Ukrainians, then you push the battalion to the foreign legion for the Canadians to use right away.
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MilEME09
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And remember wounded are likely 3 times that, if not more, so Russia is likely past 100k casualties
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If that's true, its mind boggling there is still popular support in Russia for this folly. Those numbers are higher than the Soviet-Afghan War and Second Chechen War combined....
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But what USSR 2.0 GenPub sees/hears/reads is that these are Nazis killing their kids, just like the Ukrainians who've been allegedly genociding all those Russians in the separatist enclaves since 2014.
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Anything to help the troops ....
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Aid on the way: Murmansk sends toilet paper, underpants, uniforms to warriors in Ukraine
According to the leader of a major relief effort organised in Murmansk, the Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are starving and often do not have proper clothes and shoes.
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"Folks, give it up for our next group looking for the 'Garage Band Heroes' first prize, Culminated Sphincters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Some reassuring news from Pravda on USSR 2.0 casualties (highlights mine) ...
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given that russian propaganda overstates most things by a factor of 10 (they seem to do the old fashioned "big lie" version of propaganda, Ukraine's is a bit more subtle), then the losses are probably 2:1 in the Ukrainian's favour...
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Lots of generals appear to be doing well, if nothing else...
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Seems they were "missing" at least 30,000 soldiers even before the invasion, likley they don't even know for themselves how many have died.
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And getting ready to pivot to the Pacific.
How do you convince a war-weary public, including a damned-near broke UK, that they should now turn on an ally?
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The long game.
A lot of folks felt that Wilson buggered up Versailles 1919 by making too radical a change to the balance of power in Europe by demanding republics vice a return to monarchies in some of the divested states of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Ofcourse it opened the door to revolutionaries and fascism because power vacuums in places that were used to absolute power are usually filled by dictators (see Egypt, ??? BCE to Present).
If Germany were to be beaten down to a point of conquest, no issues. That would have taken another 6 years and mllions more men to accomplish, both of which were not in the cards.
The same can be said of the Soviets in WWII. The UK/France/US knew that the Russians were looking for Lebensraum just as much as the Nazis were in 1939. The Baltics, Finland, Eastern Poland, the Rush to Berlin.... all of it was a land grab by a totalitarian dictator that just happened to hate the same one we did. The Allies would face that skeleton in the closet eventually, but folks were done with the war, and the chests were empty.
So here we are, almost 80 years since the end of WWII, facing down the Russians in a European land war no one is equipped for, because we didn't think we could win the short game. Now we play the long game and suffer.
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Not to mention all the propaganda about help our Soviet "Allies". Most of the Trade Unions had been infiltrated by that time (not to mention most of the British Government) and the unions might try to pressure governments to back down.
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In the DPR, if 2million is their approximate population, their admitted KIA scaled to the USA would be about 300k with 1.2 MILLION wounded. More than WW2 in US terms. (18:10---)
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Note: only Russian contract and career. There are no conscripts there, and Chechnya, Wagner, DPR & LPR losses fon't count.
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