Daniel is based in western Europe where he teaches. Many of his students write essays which he posts from time to time. WE are allowed to answer his students as to the accuracy or thoughts of the essays. I am sure the news he obtains about eastern Europe is far mor accurate than what we are getting in the US about Russia and its causalities. Putin’s choice: 500,000 casualties by Daniel Zetland The one-handed economist This figure shows Russian losses in Ukraine. The 500,000 figure is for casualties, i.e., dead and wounded. According to Perplexity, 100,000 -180,000 of these are deaths. How do these losses compare to other Russian fighting? The scale of Russian losses in just over a year of fighting in Ukraine already exceeds
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Daniel is based in western Europe where he teaches. Many of his students write essays which he posts from time to time. WE are allowed to answer his students as to the accuracy or thoughts of the essays.
I am sure the news he obtains about eastern Europe is far mor accurate than what we are getting in the US about Russia and its causalities.
Putin’s choice: 500,000 casualties
by Daniel Zetland
The one-handed economist
This figure shows Russian losses in Ukraine. The 500,000 figure is for casualties, i.e., dead and wounded. According to Perplexity, 100,000 -180,000 of these are deaths.
How do these losses compare to other Russian fighting?
The scale of Russian losses in just over a year of fighting in Ukraine already exceeds the Soviet death toll across the entire 9-year Afghan campaign. It likely surpasses all of Russia’s military deaths since World War II combined.
While difficult to verify exact figures, the various estimates from Ukrainian, Western, and even some Russian sources highlight that Russian troop losses in the Ukraine invasion have been catastrophically high compared to other post-WW2 wars, potentially unprecedented in modern Russian military history.
Around 58,000 American soldiers died in Vietnam (1964-1975).
Bottom line: Putin doesn’t care about his people.