Russia and Ukraine

[Fake Messiah]

Russians have lost half a million people to occupy almost nothing.

According to official russian sources its closer to 1mio.
If you add all the recruiting numbers, factor in the starting size of the russian army as well as its current size (in Ukraine), there is about 1 million "missing".

I was thinking about the year 2025, when Russians lost close to half a million soldiers.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Nearly half of Americans do not support President Trump’s efforts surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war, according to a new poll.

When asked in The Economist/YouGov poll about their support for “the way Donald Trump is handling the situation with Russia and Ukraine,” 49 percent of respondents said they “somewhat disapprove” or “strongly disapprove.”

Thirty percent of respondents in the same poll said they either “somewhat approve” or “strongly approve” Trump’s handling of the situation, while 20 percent were unsure.

https://thehill.com/policy/international...mp-russia/

[Belacqua]

This is from Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, by Robert Gates, who was the director of the CIA and US Secretary of Defense:

[NATO expansion was] "recklessly ignoring what the Russians considered their own vital national interests... When Russia was weak in the 1990s and beyond, we did not take Russian interests seriously. We did a poor job of seeing the world from their point of view... Trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching."

It is possible that the director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense knows what he's talking about.