Real numbers from the Ukraine

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/ukraine-opts-more-cowbell-as-desperation-sets/

The last week of November is setting up to be a pivotal week in Ukraine’s futile effort to fend off the Russian military. Russia is clobbering Kiev and other parts of western Ukraine with drone hordes that are wreaking havoc on military depots and electric power nodes. In Kiev, the rift between President Zelensky and General Zaluzhny is widening, with rumors swirling that Zelensky will order a full mobilization of Ukraine that will draft 17 to 70 year old civilians, including women.

To make matters worse General Winter has arrived in full force, lashing Ukraine (and Russia) with winds of more than 90 mph and mountains of snow.

Zelensky’s efforts to hide the staggering losses of Ukrainian troops took a major hit when Ukrainian TV Channel 1+1 reported that the AFU’s casualties so far were 1,126,652 KIAs and MIAs. Andrei Martyanov noted that Zelensky’s office moved quickly to force Channel 1+1 to retract the story, but the damage was done. The horse left the barn. Closing the barn door does not put the horse back in its stall.

Note that that is more losses than the US has suffered in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries combined (so far). Vox Day offered some nice commentary on the statistic: 

Except in that it represents a step toward the world’s eventual acceptance of Russia’s victory over NATO, the slaughter of five percent of the male Ukrainian population isn’t something to celebrate. It is an abomination and an object lesson in the intrinsic danger of a nation permitting itself to be ruled over by foreigners and thereby sacrificed to interests that are not their own.

The staggering death toll should also provide a sobering lesson to the Boomers and others who still believe in the myth of American military supremacy, as it represents more soldiers than are presently on active duty in the US Army, Navy, and Marine Corps combined.

I'll add that it goes further than that. The Ukrainians, or at least the Ukrainian government, brought this on themselves, with the collaboration and collusion of and equally foreign US state department and the UK's equivalent. (((We've))) overthrown the democratically elected government of the Ukraine twice since the advent of the 21st century, and allowed the murder of over 14,000 ethnic Russian civilians in the Donbass before Russia, quite patiently, honestly, slow-walked their way to doing something about it once and for all. The poor Ukrainian people have been manipulated by one foreign interest after another, and ultimately put into the meat grinder to keep the gravy train for corrupt foreign technocrats a little longer.

I don't imagine that the Ukrainians are (or were) a particularly righteous people. Like much of the post-Soviet Slavic world, they've been turned into white Lamanites, essentially, in more ways than one; the traditions of their fathers, flawed though they may have been, have been replaced with hedonistic Babelism thanks to the (((Marxist))) indoctrination of generations. But I don't think they deserved what's been done to them. And for foolhardy binary thinkers, as I said, the Russians are hardly to blame (although they're not any more righteous than the Ukrainians, I'd bet, and their leadership isn't exactly anything to write home about either.) The Russians very reluctantly yet inevitably arrived at this point.