Has Russia defeated Ukraine? – the US, EU and other nations have pumped over a quarter of a trillion bucks into the war in Ukraine – the result? – 400,000 Ukrainians dead, three times that wounded
From here:
400,000 Ukrainians Killed in Action Explains a Whole Lot | The Epoch Times (h/t ZeroHedge)
“Col. Macgregor puts Ukrainian KIA at over 400,000 out of the 2 million Ukraine has mobilized. Col. Macgregor arrived at this shocking number using a wide variety of sources, including contacts within U.S. intelligence and contacts on the ground in Ukraine and Poland who have intimate knowledge of what's really happening in Ukraine.”
How many Ukrainian wounded? Maybe a ratio of three wounded to one dead is a base line:
Wounded-To-Killed Ratios | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org)
If true, Ukraine does not have may left out of the 2 million mobilized with 1.2 million wounded and 400,000 dead – just 400,000 left.
What hasn’t been sold to the Russians or others or captured or destroyed probably means there is plenty of equipment and ammunition to go round amongst those surviving and active.
How much “aid” has been sent to Ukraine in the last almost two years?
From here:
“The US and the EU have dovetailed on support for Ukraine, with the EU providing €133bn worth of total funding to €72bn from Washington. The US has taken the lead on direct military aid, at €44bn, more than double any other individual nation, with Germany next on the list with €17bn.”
A total of 205 billion Euros = 223 billion bucks. Adding in other “donors” easily takes the bill to 250 billion dollars = A QUARTER OF A TRILLION BUCKS.
If 400,000 dead is accurate that works out at the US, EU and others have spent around 625,000 bucks for each dead Ukrainian.
Now factor in the utter devastation that Russia has wrought over the remaining two thirds of Ukraine that remains in Ukraine hands and.. well.. the loss of life and the loss of a way if life is catastrophic – for Ukraine.
Russia will have its own numbers. Pick your number 50.000 dead – 100,00 dead and 5 billion-25 billion that has been diverted from elsewhere plus the loss of Nord Stream 2 and some Moscow apartment block damage?
Imagine if the US has instead spent 80 billion bucks on border security, building a wall and deporting illegal immigrants.
This on top of the ludicrous amounts earmarked for a non-existent climate crisis and a response to a manufactured pandemic.
You get what you vote for – or don’t in the case of the US with its rigged election system.
Biden and Blinken or Bevis and Butthead – not sure which is which in that comparison.
Has Ukraine already lost the wat?
“The ISW highlights that the stakes in Russia's conflict with Ukraine are higher for the U.S. than most people perceive.
"Russia's total conquest of Ukraine is not impossible if the U.S. stops all military aid to Ukraine and Europe follows this lead." - we read in the analysis. In such a scenario, the 'battered but victorious' Russian army would stand right up to the NATO border, warns the ISW.”
ISW = Institute for the Study of War
Onwards!
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It is my wish for every article regarding the war in Ukraine be prefaced with the fact that Ukraine began attacks on the Donbas region in 2014 and, despite repeated pleas by Russia to Ukraine to cease and desist, despite repeated cries to NATO to intervene, despite the fact that Russia did not immediately RETALIATE for this criminal activity on the part of Ukraine -- rather Russia's hand was FORCED to protect this largely Russian-speaking group from harm -- war ensued. US/Ukraine WANTED this conflict to proceed whilst they picked the pockets of every US taxpayer. Ukraine, said to be "the most corrupt country in the world," its politicians puppets of a hidden hand, have decimated its treasure of men, women and children -- conceded to death and the country to nearly complete destruction. Not even the ruse of a 'democratic' election. "War is a Rich Man's Trick." War Bad.
The Russian war machine will not stop until the goals of the Special Military Operation have been met. From the best source of information of this subject, check out this writer. “Putin's Q&A and Some Revealing Article Roundups on AFU's Deterioration” https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/putins-q-and-a-and-some-revealing?r=gjogf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web