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Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army
(united24media.com)
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I don't trust any casualty tallies I've seen for either side, really—including the 1.7 million for Ukraine that was claimed by those hackers. The real numbers are likely closely guarded. We'll have to wait for the historians to sort it out 10-20 years from now.
However, we do have clues as to which country (if any) is facing a recruitment crisis and/or demographic collapse: One side has resorted to stalking men on the streets and press-ganging them.
It's beyond dispute; there exist many hundreds of videos documenting the practice. I'll never forget this mother trying to save her son, nor this man's scream.
Many Ukrainians are afraid to leave their homes. Several have died during their encounters with the "recruiters", some of them choosing to take their own lives with grenades rather than be taken to the front, and some succumbing to injuries sustained while trying to resist.
Ibid:
Ukrainians have begun to fight back by killing the recruiters.
The "winners" write the history books. It's unlikely we'll ever get true answers. Intelligence agencies are all over this waging their own information wars. Narratives spun, and spun again. We're entering an era where we will no longer even need crisis actors and groups to produce fake materials, where anyone can generate "evidence" typing a few lines into their favourite video generator.
That "truism" is laughed at all by serious historians. Not only do we have plenty of accounts of wars written by the losers, we have accounts of wars known only from the loser perspective, and in a modern bureaucracy there's so much paper trail the burden is shifting through all the evidence.
History isn't written by the victors, it's written by the survivors.
Yes it's complicated, hence the quotation marks
Not even winners and they're already peddling bullshit lol