Post SeigSoloyvov Today at 10:02 am
No buddy don't try to protect yourself now, You threw a hissy fit like you normally do and you are still doing it under the guise of trying to sound neutral.
Also what you are saying has NOTHING to do with what I said, This is how you know people have no understanding.
When you bring up separate matters to try and prove your case.
My remark was about how Ukraine isn't running out of men that is all, I did not say anything about the othercrap your trying to bring up to cover your ass.
So save it.
The problem with you is that you have an equal distribution of moments when you are a sane guy with actually very accurate perspective, and an absolute troll with no clue and zero understanding.
The other part however can be totally not your fault, just an effect of Anglosaxon info stream you are flooded with - that makes you absolutely lacking the clue.
Not only me, but few other folks here tried to paint a broader picture of the things out there, but some are just impregnated and won't record the info even if given on a silver plate.
Yet, we must try, because cases of the sane pictures are rare, especially in English.
So again ...
Ukroshitstan you are watching now has nothing to do with Ukraine.
For the last 8 years, it was an object of a constant process of dehumanization.
In multiple aspects, not only the nazi ideology, but physically ethnic cleansing was going there for years.
Ukrainian refugees flooded both Russia and Europe from 2014 on.
We talk millions of people, the first wave consisted of probably as many as 7-8 million Ukrainian citizens, spread in Russia, Poland, Germany, Romania, Hungary and Germany.
This wave was consisting mostly of young people, in the peak of productive age. We talk whole families, with kids.
Most of those refugees never considered coming back to Ukraine.
I know that because there are some 2-3 mln of them in my country only. There is no general store, no car workshop, and no construction team without them.
A week ago I hired a construction company, and out of five folks there FIVE were Ukrainians.
Each day, my packages are carried by Siergiey. My post is being delivered by a young Ukrainian girl. The tires in my cars have been changed for winter ones by Ukrainians. My home was painted by my Ukrainian employees. Ukrainians are sitting at the cash desks of any general store here.
In Russia, there are even more of them, however, they won't be so much visible, for obvious reasons.
Are you getting the scale of it, or not yet?
This was the first wave only.
It was assisted by Russian annexation of the Crimea, with 2.5 mln population.
Donbas and Lugansk constituted for a further 5 mln.
The area annexed by Russians now is about 10 mln people in total.
7-8 fleed 2014 on.
Same now.
The exodus continues, because this is one of the Russkie objectives.
Do you add the numbers with me?
We are talking about situation, when some 20, maybe even 25 mln Ukrainians are not in Ukraine anymore.
And before the shit hit the fan back in 2014, Ukraine was already at the edge of 40 mln, down from the 1993 peak of 53 (!!) mln citizens.
This is a real scale of this tragedy. It's human factor.
Nobody sane wishes a fellow human this kind of destruction that was unleashed on this country, that REALLY left the Soviet Union with the huge potential of being one of the biggest industrial superpowers. In worldwide perspective.
So, the numbers for the population in the 404 now are at some +/- 20 mln people, and I am gravy serious. And that number is ticking down, not up.
The other thing is social structure of this population - as I have said, at least the first wave was made of the young working-age population mostly.
You still adding the dots, do you?
Now, if we consider let's say SovietUnion mass mobilization of 1942, it brought about 6% of the population in ranks.
W can't apply this number, because the social structure of the Soviet Union back then was totally different. Population was younger, on average. Families had more kids, like 4-5 as a norm.
Considering that, a "modern" society can enlist maybe some 4%. That's it. And we don't talk about any external factors, like the population structure, because it would bring that number even more down in the case of today's 404.
4% of 25 mln is 1 million troops. And no, 404 is not 25 mln anymore, and this number can be easily adjusted for the age/sex structure.
But let's say that yes, they can enlist a million sould. In total.
Well ... Russkie took down half of that already.
Just do the math.