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How many Russian lives did it cost to take, and then lose, that territory?
Its estimated that 325,000 Russians have been killed since February 2022. That's four years. For context, America lost 55,000 soldiers in Vietnam, over about 10 years. Less than 2500 were killed in the Afghanistan War, which lasted 20 years.
With drones, armored vehicles, better equipment, more accurate weapons, better training, body armor, etc., armies should be losing far less soldiers, but Russia apparently doesn't subscribe to that notion.
America was extremely upset over their losses in Vietnam. Eventually even Conservatives turned against it, as they began to lose their own children to the draft. Our country is far larger than Russia, and if we were feeling it so badly, the Russian people must be out of their minds.
At 325,000 dead, literally every Russian must know a victim, or the family of a victim. Every neighborhood, every high school graduating class must have several dead. Russians are people just like us, so think how we would feel if we had lost that many young men in only the last four years.
Putin can't keep this up, at some point the people will have to resist, or he'll kill an entire generation.
You act like he’s not ok with killing an entire generation. Nobody throws soldiers into a meat grinder if they cared about life costs.
Oh, I know he's okay with it, but those soldier's families aren't okay with it, I can guarantee you that. I doubt any of them think it's worth it to trade their son's or husband's life for...Ukraine? How does that improve the life of the average Russian?
They are supposed to get a bucket of cash
Oh, well, I'm sure that's fine.