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Old 09-08-2022, 10:48 AM   #7201
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Originally Posted by opendoor View Post
The 50K estimate for Russian KIA is almost certainly inflated. At the normal 3:1 wounded to killed ratio, Russia's entire invasion force would have been wiped out with those numbers. Most 3rd party estimates I've seen suggest about half that number of killed.

But even that amount is catastrophic compared to any of their wars since WWII. In 10 years in Afghanistan, they only had about 15K killed.
Putin yearns for the USSR so much that he's adopting USSR war tactics too: Throw bodies at an enemy and see what happens.
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