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Ukraine Update: Russia is not winning the war
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I generally agree, but the devil is in the details. An order of magnitude more casualties would be approximately the entire Russian army and its reservists. It's currently thought that an army loses operational efficacy at 30-40% losses.
Assuming the Russian army had any operational efficiency to begin with.
Looking at WW2 numbers, they still have some way to go and I suppose you don't need to worry too much about defending other borders, as long as you giver a finger over the nuclear suicide button.
Why should we suppose that the current Russian military is as resilient as the Soviet one was?
Come to that, why should we suppose even their nukes are in similar condition?
It's been decades of essentially government by organized crime and kleptocracy in Russia. Their shit is wack, in the parlance.