Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

Russian propagandists are now telling people that it would take them mere years to capture the donetsk region at current rates.....so things are going well.......

Like a clown rolling around in pig shit trying to put out a garbage fire they've bumbledfucked into.

Donetsk region..for reference, is smaller than most american counties, and they started the full scale invasion with about 50% control.  A consequence of a previous decades worth of paramilitary and uniformed action.  If those are the metrics, here's to russia continuing it's wildly successful stint of adventurism in ukraine.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5jbj2wz...-in-Moscow

Some sources estimate that Russian death since the starting of this war could be as high as 800,000.
 
North Korean “elite” troops are now being used in zombie waves (they drug the soldiers and send them to die on Ukrainian lines, wave after wave until they are able to takeover Ukrainian positions). The number of confirmed North Korean deaths is actually at 5000.
 
The Wagner Group alone is said to have lost 200,000 men just to take the city of Bakhmut.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-koreas-...p_catchall
 
In “Enemy at the Gates” (Jude Law / 2001) you can see how this human waves technique was used in the Battle of Stalingrad against the Nazis in the 1940’s. But that was a war in which the Survival of the very Nation was in play so Soviet Generals (like Krutchvev) were not hesitating to sacrifice as many lives as necessary because if they ever lost some key cities to the Nazis, they could become just another country who had been crushed by fascist powers.
 
Why does anyone even think of using similar methods to invade a sovereign country?
 
So I don’t know if he is going to be able to solve of even improve anything on the ground, but Donald Trump is absolutely right in saying that this war shouldn’t have started in the first place