idk just check the subreddit old.reddit.com/r/volunteersForUkraine/ its all a shitshow I mostly just wanted to post the funny image
https://old.reddit.com/r/volunteersForUkraine/comments/tecv7r/victory_for_ukraine_great_jawb_guize/
idk just check the subreddit old.reddit.com/r/volunteersForUkraine/ its all a shitshow I mostly just wanted to post the funny image
https://old.reddit.com/r/volunteersForUkraine/comments/tecv7r/victory_for_ukraine_great_jawb_guize/
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Finland had K/D 5-7 and Soviet Union had bigger army but todayโs war Ukraine has bigger army and even by most optimistic stats their K/D is 1,1 and if you count civilians than their K/D is negative. Also Ukraine lost way more tech than Russia.
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Ukraine has 900,000 reserves so theoretically they would have a lot more men. But I've got no idea how many they actually managed to mobilize.
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Russia has 1.2 mil in active service, tf you talking about a lot more.
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Russia's army has shrunk dramatically over the last several years as they hoped to have smaller but more competent force. Let's see what the glowies say in the CIA World Factbook, since you can unironically trust them more about this stuff than anyone else:
So this is maybe about 400,000 ground troops plus about 250,000 MVD gendarmes/thugs. And they have a lot of other responsibilities. They have to pose a credible threat to fight another war with Georgia, be ready to go into Central Asia to prop up their clients, patrol all the borders of a huge country, and beat down all the opposition from Putin's real and imagined opponents inside the country.
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Is it the National Guard specifically fighting in Ukraine or am I not following?
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The "National Guard" is the same thing as the OMON/MVD/Interior Ministry troops from the 1990s and Soviet era. They have been sent into Ukraine, but they're not real soldiers. They're trained to be riot police and beat up protestors, not fight a high intensity war.
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Didn't Putin restore "Cossacks" for this recently?
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He's brought in Chechens as a terror weapon. "Submit or we'll send them in to r*pe your wife. Surrender and maybe they won't r*pe her." I don't know about Cossacks, my impression is that's more of a meme thing where they cosplay and make Putin feel like he's a part of history.
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I meant the dudes in fur hats who beat up protestors while allegedly not being a part of any gov structure, although their actions are never stopped by police. Basically, the precursors of antifa. The term "cossack" in regards to them might be moreso colloquial than official.
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All those words to agree with me that Russia has 1.2 mil in active service
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Mobilize? Honestly they probably just throw a gun into every free hand they can. Or at least they ought to.
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That's what they've started doing a little while back, and what makes me suspect Zelensky is not planning to win the war anymore. A lot of that weaponry has allegedly already coagulated in the hands of organized crime and other gangbangers. They are gonna be a massive pain in the butt for whoever owns Ukraine by the end of this, for decades probably.
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Somebody in the future might possibly commit a CRIME in Ukraine???????!!??!??!??
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These are slavs, so think Detroit-level.
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Ukrainians claiming 12000+ dead yesterday but I think everyone has stopped believing those numbers now.
The image seems to indicate anywhere between 1:1.5 to 1:3
1:1 k/d ratio honestly wouldn't make any sense taking into account that one side is defending and the other one sent conscripts as the first wave.
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Dude theres vids of russian rocket artillery disappearing entire grid coordinates the ukrainians cant possibly have higher K/D lol
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1-1 is not great for a "far superior" military. Even the US in Vietnam had a KD of something like 20-1, and they lost that war.
I did not bother to look this up so could be wildly wrong here
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I don't think it was as high as 20-1 but the general premise is right. US absolutely crushed the vietnamese in kill ratio.
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Russian limiting them self, they could just bomb and then napalm everything. But they are trying to minimum the civilian deaths. The more civilian will be exported to Germany the heavier weapons Russia is going to use. So itโs kinda bs when news telling Russian donโt want to let civilian out of the cities. If a city was only with soldiers they would been free to use chemical weapons
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