Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 3:15 pm
I was more curious about the salary stats.
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This was the question I'd asked Perplexity Plus: "How many years back do we need to go back to have a total of 800,000 Americans killed or wounded in war"dualstow wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 5:55 am Remember that the quote says “killed or wounded”, not “killed.”
But, you got me to check wikipedia anyway, because these are not numbers that I’m familiar with. I have looked up casualties of different wars, but they don’t stay with me.
The 800,000 figure does match up, but only with Ukraine’s estimate (of Russian losses). This is wildly different from Russia’s own estimate. For what it’s worth.
Then again, the UK’s estimate is even higher: 900K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualtie ... casualties
Again, very different countries. I think you have an idea about what Russia does to demonstrators, and even its dissidents abroad. It might actually be safer on the front line.That would mean that 12% of those men aged 18-26 would have been killed or injured. Would the country just accept this without some sort of demonstrations?
The only additional I know about other than the above is that I just heard on CNN that some are comparing it to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. If so, that'd be great.
Did hear a discussion about that this morning.
The "clever" part about Pearl Harbor was that they'd planned it for 10 years, nothing about it ever leaked out, and it was a total surprise to the United States.dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 9:11 am I agree. Obviously, Pearl Harbor has a tainted reputation, as it should. The U.S. was not a belligerent and anyway, was there anything particularly clever about it?
I doubt many deaths occurred from the drone strike on Russia’s grounded fleet of bombers.
Ukraine brought these drones in to Russia, little by little over time, secreted in pick-up trucks. Very clever.
Edit: The drones were “packed onto pallets inside wooden containers with remote-controlled lids, and then loaded onto trucks” says the NYT.
yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 8:17 pmThe "clever" part about Pearl Harbor was that they'd planned it for 10 years, nothing about it ever leaked out, and it was a total surprise to the United States.dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 9:11 am I agree. Obviously, Pearl Harbor has a tainted reputation, as it should. The U.S. was not a belligerent and anyway, was there anything particularly clever about it?
I doubt many deaths occurred from the drone strike on Russia’s grounded fleet of bombers.
Ukraine brought these drones in to Russia, little by little over time, secreted in pick-up trucks. Very clever.
Edit: The drones were “packed onto pallets inside wooden containers with remote-controlled lids, and then loaded onto trucks” says the NYT.