At the current losses Russia will have long destroyed its population before Ukraine.
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At the current losses Russia will have long destroyed its population before Ukraine.
Not really, the death tolls are so far out of whack it will impact Russia long before it impacts Ukraine. The pool of people capable of becoming soldiers actually goes in Ukraine's favour.
Though there is the factor that Russia can conscript people whereas Ukraine is relying on volunteers who want to defend their country, but this shows no sign of waning.
The full breakdown is:
Russia
Population: 143,400,000
% female: 54
Amount male: 65,964,000
% 18-65: 61
Total fighting age men: 40,238,040
Ukraine
Population: 43,790,000
% female: 54
Amount male: 20,143,400
% 18-65: 66
Total fighting age men: 13,294,644
Russia have three times the maximum recruit-able/conscript-able man power, but they're taking well over three times the daily casualties so ignoring all other factors and looking at just a pure manpower basis they're going to run into issue first.
Of course nobody is going to burn through their entire fighting age population just to keep a war going, even Russia. Plus you have added factors, such as as due to their country/economy/industry/etc being larger than Ukraine's it requires more people to make it function, losing a working age male is more damaging to them than it may first appear.
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Each member makes a very small national commitment to produce a maintain a system of nationally run and controlled production facilities within the NATO framework, that can’t be held to ransom by the Victor Orban’s and Donald Trump’s of the world.
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Oh, how's that working out? And will Russia not also be doing the same thing?
If this were true, Ukraine would easily be winning this war. At every point in this war we've been told Russia is taking far more losses than Ukraine, even when Ukraine was fighting through mine fields and artillery against Russians dug in trenches. It's simply not true.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ukraine haven't reported their combat losses, so how can you even know that?
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Ukraine is conscripting as well afaik.
The population difference is there, which is why Ukraine needs quality > quantity, every soldier counts.
The population difference is there, which is why Ukraine needs quality > quantity, every soldier counts.
That actually gets really complicated - Ukraine actually will struggle with a smaller man power pool first when it comes to being combat effective and being able to operate everything supporting and non-military as well, eased a bit in this case by having foreign support. (due to things like overheads, etc. i.e. you need a certain minimum number of people to operate something which doesn't scale on population size).
Both countries would be combat ineffective long before they'd drained out their pool of fighting age people as well but neither are going to hit that yet.
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Uh that is kind of the point - if the West enables Ukraine to have sufficient volume of fire enhanced with more advanced platforms that puts Russia on the back foot even if they have ammunition supplies. Stuff like the Malka, Msta-S, etc. is no match for more modern Western systems.
It’s as if Vladolf has some kind of obsession with fertilising Ukraines fields.
Ukraine is winning the war, even while suffering with a lack of weapons.
Could they not just rename it?
Then again the MiG-15 was never renamed... xD
(I know that's not why it's being disbanded
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The verified equipment losses speak volumes.
Also just because Russia is taking more losses doesn't mean Ukraine is easily winning as it's entirely dependent on there being a fight in the first place and there's only a few points on the line of contact that this is even happening to any significant degree.
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Tucker getting community noted and I'm with Schiff and not Lord Haw-Haw on this one.
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As for him being a journalist Roar, I've C&P this from elsewhere but it sums it up nicely. There were also photos of Elena Milashina body beaten black and blue but I won't post them here.
Evan Gershkovich is an actual journalist. He's currently being held hostage in Russia. Anna Politkovskaya was a proper ******* journalist, who bravely reported on the Chechen Wars, she had her brains blown out on Putin's birthday.
Evan Gershkovich is an actual journalist. He's currently being held hostage in Russia. Anna Politkovskaya was a proper ******* journalist, who bravely reported on the Chechen Wars, she had her brains blown out on Putin's birthday.
Yeah to be fair Russia should just do what America does and invent some phoney sexual abuse charges and throw them in prison.
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If you think the US and the US system is imperfect. Or you don't like Democrats. Or both. It's fine. Just choose an issue other than a European security crisis to make your point.
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