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Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 05:22:43 JST Charlie Stross

This is ghastly.
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  Attached: 4 images As I've suggested for awhile, there is a worsening of the Russian KIA vs. WIA ratio, due to a lack & systemic breakdown of medical evac, the people and armored vehicles required to do it, wounded not being sent to hospitals, as they go AWOL, used instead in wave assaults, increasing drones w/ multiple strikes on target, etc. Telenko puts the current KIA vs. WIA ratio as MUCH worse than WW1 levels, with herds of PIGS having learned, Pavlovian-style, that if they hear FPVs, that means food.
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  Cadbury Moose (cadbury_moose@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 05:57:48 JST Cadbury Moose
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  @cstross The Russians haven't changed since WW2.
  
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  Rupert (rupert@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:20:49 JST Rupert
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  @cstross So the pigs have learned to follow the Ukrainian drones because there will be Russian bodies later faster than the Russians have learned to avoid the pigs because there may be Ukrainian drones nearby.
  
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  Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:23:09 JST Charlie Stross
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  @jackwilliambell Also note the Vietnam war lasted a LOT longer than the Ukraine war so far, and Russia has a significantly smaller population than the USA had in 1962-75.
  This'd be like today's USA losing half a million dead and over a million wounded. Nothing like it since WW2.
  
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  Jack William Bell (jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:23:10 JST Jack William Bell
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  If rusgov didn't have a stranglehold on journalism they would have one hell of a problem with grass roots anti-war activism right now. You can jail political rivals, but it's a lot more difficult to jail a hundred thousand mothers and students.
  In truth? I'm surprised it isn't already happening.
  Russian losses in Ukraine (est): 200,000+ killed, 550,000+ wounded.
  USA losses in Vietnam: 58,220 killed, 153,372 wounded.
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    Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War
    
    Casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian War include six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the War in Donbas, and up to 1,000,000 estimated casualties during the Russian invasion of Ukraine till mid-September 2024. The War in Donbas's deadliest phase (pre-2022) occurred before the Minsk agreements, aimed at ceasefire and settlement. Despite varied reports on Ukrainian military casualties due to underreporting, official figures eventually tallied, indicating significant military and civilian casualties on both sides. The war also saw a substantial number of missing and captured individuals, with efforts to exchange prisoners between conflicting parties. Foreign fighters and civilian casualties added to the war's complexity, with international involvement and impacts extending beyond the immediate conflict zones. The subsequent Russian invasion of Ukraine further escalated casualties and destruction. Conflicting reports from Russian and Ukrainian sources indicated high military and civilian casualties, with significant discrepancies in reported numbers...
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    Vietnam War
    
    The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. Direct US military involvement greatly escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled over into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975. After the defeat of the French Union in the First Indochina War that began in 1946, Vietnam gained independence in the 1954 Geneva Conference but was divided into two parts at the 17th parallel: the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh, took control of North Vietnam, while the US assumed financial and military support for South Vietnam, led by Ngo Dinh Diem. The North Vietnamese began supplying and directing the...
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  Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:24:34 JST Charlie Stross
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  @mhoye I'm not buying Ukrainian sausages and bacon until well after the war's over. Sorry, just nope.
  
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  mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:24:35 JST mhoye
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  @cstross They're shipping wildly unprepared North Korean kids halfway around the world so they can be fed to pigs, jfc.
  
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  Cavyherd (cavyherd@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 07:13:57 JST Cavyherd
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  Okay, WOW.
  I initially parsed PIGS as some obscure military jargon acronym or something, but on 2nd reread realized you meant actual porcine type mammals. Holy fuck.
  & pigs are smart enough I bet they don't even need the drones; I suspect they just quietly track Russian troop movements, on principle.
  Jfc 😬
  
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