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Half a million dead and wounded soldiers in Ukraine. Was this proxy war to "weaken Putin" worth their blood and our treasure?

No... it was to perpetuate the RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! bullshit started by the cunt Hillary Clinton.

Make sure Russia is seen as the bad guy, that way we can bring it up again when Trump runs.

Putin and Russia ARE the bad guys, but this has become a political football because of the bullshit Dossier Clinton had made up to make Trump look bad and it STILL failed, so we get an endless (for now) proxy war, costing America trillion(s), because of that and Joe Biden being compromised by Ukraine, taking bribes and letting his NOT-qualified-for-energy-business have a job.

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Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say

Ukraine and Russia have lost a staggering number of troops as Kyiv's counteroffensive drags on. A lack of rapid medical care has added to the toll.

The total number of Ukrainian and Russian troops killed or wounded since the war in Ukraine began 18 months ago is nearing 500,000, U.S. officials said, a staggering toll as Russia assaults its next-door neighbor and tries to seize more territory.

The officials cautioned that casualty figures remained difficult to estimate because Moscow is believed to routinely undercount its war dead and injured, and Kyiv does not disclose official figures. But they said the slaughter intensified this year in eastern Ukraine and has continued at a steady clip as a nearly three-month-old counteroffensive drags on.

Russia's military casualties, the officials said, are approaching 300,000. The number includes as many as 120,000 deaths and 170,000 to 180,000 injured troops. The Russian numbers dwarf the Ukrainian figures, which the officials put at close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded.

But Russians outnumber Ukrainians on the battlefield almost three to one, and Russia has a larger population from which to replenish its ranks.

Ukraine has around 500,000 troops, including active-duty, reserve and paramilitary troops, according to analysts. By contrast, Russia has almost triple that number, with 1,330,000 active-duty, reserve and paramilitary troops - most of the latter from the Wagner Group.

The Biden administration's last public estimate of casualties came in November, when Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that more than 100,000 troops on each side had been killed or wounded since the war began in February 2022. At the time, officials said privately that the numbers were closer to 120,000 killed and wounded.

But that number soared in the winter and spring, as the two countries turned the eastern city of Bakhmut into a killing field. Hundreds of troops were killed or injured a day for many weeks, U.S. officials said. The Russians took heavy casualties, but so too did the Ukrainians as they tried to hold every inch of ground before losing the city in May.

The State of the War

On the Front Line: Small villages along a buffer area between Ukrainian and Russian positions on the Zaporizhzhia war front are increasingly coming under heavy bombardment.
F-16 Fighter Jets: The United States will allow allies to send American-made F- 16 fighter jets to Kyiv once Ukrainian pilots are trained to operate them. The long-awaited announcement came as a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force said that the planes wouldn't arrive by winter as they had hoped.
A Case for Ecocide: As dolphins wash up dead on the shores of the Black Sea, Ukrainian officials say their plight speaks to the savage toll that war is taking on the environment - something they want to document for prosecution.
A Lifeline From Romania: As Russia continues to threaten vessels picking up Ukrainian grain in ports on the Black Sea, a 40-mile channel protected by a NATO umbrella has become a crucial alternative route.

The opening weeks of Kyiv's counteroffensive this summer were particularly difficult for Ukraine. In the early phase, Western-trained Ukrainian troops struggled to employ "combined arms maneuvers" - a method of fighting in which infantry, armor and artillery are used together in synchronized attacks. Editors" Picks
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Ukrainian troops initially tried to break through dug-in Russian lines with mechanized combined arms formations. Equipped with advanced American weapons, the Ukrainians nonetheless became bogged down in dense Russian minefields under constant fire from artillery and helicopter gunships.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/ukraine-russia-war- casualties.html

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Ladies and Gentlemen... I give you the Democrats" best: Old-Rich-White- Religious Freak, Joe Biden

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Truinnerashuvaduprezure!

https://i.imgur.com/vtb7SuM.mp4

https://youtu.be/Slm5bvO-_5I

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Joe Bidden Completely Forgets What He's Talking About In Excruciating Press Conference
https://youtu.be/SdfvIvYPPRo?t=32

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Joe Biden: You Just Wonder
https://youtu.be/Uj0ccJgJsPA


Joe Biden Fumbles Through Speech
https://youtu.be/0xwoaagXFyU


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Barely There Biden Makes No Sense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxxAyHgBiNU


Joe Biden Stumbles, Makes No Sense
https://youtu.be/X1byHpkSmYc


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Joe Biden making Zer0 sense
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