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2023-09-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Colonel McGregor pointed to Kiev accidentally disclosed casualty data

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Posted by badanov 2023-09-03 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 Have to call bullshit. 400k casualties with many returning and getting hurt again, I can believe. 400K dead, not so much. Not even Ukraine is claiming that many dead on the Russian side and the Muscovites have been attacking mostly which means you get more casualties.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-09-03 00:36|| 2023-09-03 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 400K is a conservative estimate.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-03 02:19|| 2023-09-03 02:19|| Front Page Top

#3 that’s nearly half a million. Where did they put all the bodies?

According to the Russians they leave them to the Russians to bury or treat if wounded. This way ~~USA~~ Ukraine doesn't have to pay death benefits to tthe families.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-03 02:33|| 2023-09-03 02:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Let's see... interior volume 2400 m³, or 80-something thousand ft³, times 5 (i.e., the number of bags I've handled meself that would fit comfortably into 1 ft³)...

An empty tomb,
["Not the Moustache's!"]
A long line of trucks bearing ashes
["The fruit of ~~cremation~~
our unified Nation!"]
Of 400,000 Uke fascists.

Posted by Omeamp Ebbeans8211 2023-09-03 03:08|| 2023-09-03 03:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Col. MacGregor completed his PhD in 1987, and likely has retired Soviet contacts feeding him those numbers. That's who he repeats the provably false Soviet claim of 39 million dead in WW II.

400K seems a touch high.

Just like the Ukrainian claim of 600k.

Posted by badanov 2023-09-03 03:33|| 2023-09-03 03:33|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Everybody lies in war. But, when it comes to casualties, I tend to believe the side with an absolute Air & Artillery superiority.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-03 03:59|| 2023-09-03 03:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Hard to count the bits.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-03 07:45|| 2023-09-03 07:45|| Front Page Top

#8 He also claims only 40,000 Russian dead. Anyone buy that?

Posted by Angstrom 2023-09-03 16:24|| 2023-09-03 16:24|| Front Page Top

#9 ^He's always carefull to say he's using official Russian sources.
The hypothesis that you all ignore is that Ukraine wasn't supposed to beat Russia. Russia was supposed to collapse due to sanctions. That's why EUros agreed to the sanctions - they were supposed to have to do without Russian products for weeks at the most.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-03 16:35|| 2023-09-03 16:35|| Front Page Top

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