PugJesus@piefed.socialM to NonCredibleDefense@piefed.socialEnglish · 28 days agoJust a quick victory to shore up the Tsar's reputation at home - what could go wrong?media.piefed.socialimagemessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down10
arrow-up1127arrow-down1imageJust a quick victory to shore up the Tsar's reputation at home - what could go wrong?media.piefed.socialPugJesus@piefed.socialM to NonCredibleDefense@piefed.socialEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square8linkfedilink
minus-squareDontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·28 days agoJust for comparisons sake, the US civil war had more Americans servicemembers killed than every other major US war, COMBINED. And that number was nearly a quarter million LESS than the Russians have lost in Ukraine But for further context, the USSR lost nearly 30 times this number in WW2 alone.
minus-squareBilly_fuccboi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·28 days agoThey got meat to spare and as long as that meat doesn’t resist, it won’t end
minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·28 days ago“that meat doesn’t resist” is a great summation of Russian history
Just for comparisons sake, the US civil war had more Americans servicemembers killed than every other major US war, COMBINED.
And that number was nearly a quarter million LESS than the Russians have lost in Ukraine
But for further context, the USSR lost nearly 30 times this number in WW2 alone.
They got meat to spare and as long as that meat doesn’t resist, it won’t end
“that meat doesn’t resist” is a great summation of Russian history