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We've Reached Peak Zelensky. Now What? | ZeroHedge
Consider some inconvenient facts that the fawning media, which is essentially the public relations arm of the weapons industry, doesn't want you to know.
The European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, recently let slip that the Ukrainian army has lost more than 100,000 troops in the eight months since the beginning of the war. Over the nine-year span of the Vietnam War, the U.S. with a population six times that of Ukraine, lost a total of 58,220 men.
In other words, on a per day, per capita basis, Ukraine is losing soldiers at a rate 141 TIMES that of U.S. losses in Vietnam. The U.S. lost the public on Vietnam when middle class white boys began coming home in body bags. Does anybody with half a brain believe such losses in Ukraine are sustainable? Does anybody have another plan to avert such slaughter?
Lol. This same bs from before and cant even get the quote right.
She said they had lost 100k OFFICERS. Why change that? Uhmm, maybe because it makes it clear she was wrong in what she said. But the facts dont fit your narrative, or Zero Hedges, and so you change them despite that we have posted her actual quotes on here multiple times and broken down what she ACTUALLY said.
Also your per capita is off by about a third. They are using the modern US population for the Vietnam losses, not 1970s. Still a really big difference, but it shows once again that you dont care about the truth, you just want to make Russia's take look better.
And it also ignores that Russia has taken similar losses. Considering Russias pop is 3.3 times Ukraines that means Russia is taking a per day loss rate 47 times worse than the US's Vietnam loss rate.
Also I am betting they are comparing dead from Vietnam, to casaulties, including wounded, in Ukraine.
And this doesnt even get into looking at the actually argument. Ukraine is the defender fighting a bigger enemy. Which would mean the comparison should be to Vietnam, not the US in the Vietnam war reference. For the record the vietnamese claimed in 1995 they lost 1,100,000 soldiers from the North during the war with the Americans alone.
Modern day Ukraine, 43 million people. 100k losses, 10 months. .00000775 a day (5 zeroes)
Modern day Russia, 143 million, 100k losses, 10 months, I get .00000233 a day (5zeroes)
1970 vietnam, 41 million, 1,100,000 losses, 10 years. I get .00000102 a day. (5 zeroes)
1970 US, 200 million, 58k dead, 10 years. I get .0000000794. (7 zeroes)
Hopefully I am doing my math right.
Point is all 3, Russia, Ukraine, and Vietnam were/are willing to accept loss rates more than 100 times worse than America during Vietnam. And the chief reason we quit was because the people back home didnt have any reason to accept those losses. Vietnam as the defender did, Ukraine as the defender does, Russia as the aggressor.....?