MojaveMike wrote:The latest reliable stats on war dead are about 16K dead for Russia and somewhere between 120K and 200K for Ukraine. The problem with Ukraine is that they are hiding the information since they want to project the impression that they are doing much better than is actually the case. The other big issue is that the sanctions against Russia have done more damage to our own economy than to theirs. Lifting the sanctions would be the smartest thing we could do if we want to fix our own economy.
Those are the same numbers I've seen. For Russia it is a war of attrition and they've executed their strategy perfectly. They have defensive structures in place which would allow them to implement their strategy if NATO sends in troops. They've basically constructed a giant meat-grinder. Let's hope they don't have to use it.