Allan Milne Lees
1 min readJan 7, 2024

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If you are going to comment on the situation in Ukraine you should become more fully informed of the distinction between "lost" and "killed." The sources you cite at the beginning of your article quote different numbers for different things. For example, it's perfectly possible for Source A to say "300,000 Russian soldiers have been eliminated from the battlespace" and Source B to say "50,000 Russian soldiers have been killed." These are not incompatible statements when we realize Source A is talking about total casualties - e.g. dead plus wounded - while Source B is talking only about confirmed casualties. Moreover, as Russians are hiding a lot of battlefield deaths by (i) burning the corpses, and (ii) pretending the dead are "missing" the chances are even Russian HQ has no real idea of what the actual attrition is.

In the end, however, none of this really matters because the mindless spineless self-absorbed complacent West has rolled over and done nothing to stop Putin's aggression and so Ukraine is ultimately doomed, as are the Baltic nations and then Europe as a whole. The latter will collapse not from Russian invasion but from Russian disinformation campaigns and the continued sponsoring of hard-right Parties that ensure the fissipation of European society and the ultimate collapse of the EU which in turn will open the door to wide-scale impoverishment and finally to Europeans once again fighting each other in a lose-lose scenario engineered by Kremlin propaganda.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

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