I truly don't get the point of your bullshit. Like, you're obviously not unintelligent. (Even if you act pretty damn dumb!) I can't believe you'd look at the overall strategic picture, of forced Russian withdrawal and protracted gruelling fighting, and honestly believe that the reality is 100,000 Ukrainian military losses for only 4,000 Russian KIA.
Well you kinda hit the nail on the head immediately, by citing Russian withdrawal from areas as to why the 100,000 figure is mostly military; how exactly can the Russians be killing Ukrainian civilians in large numbers
if they're not occupying Ukrainian civilians in large numbers in the first place? Further, I'm glad Marduk brought up Bucha; if the Russians are actually out here mass executing Ukrainian civilians by the tens of thousands, where is the supporting evidence? The U.S. produced satellite imagery for Bucha, where are the killing fields that would contain bodies equal to Babi Yar? Maybe your take then is Russian airpower and missiles are just that horrific, but I thought the party line was the Russians were running out of them and they were very badly inaccurate?
Seriously, it's called critical thinking and far too many of you aren't using it in the least in this conflict. The narratives you have all bought into are directly contradictory and require you to get into so many logical contradictions it's not funny. This is a pretty good example of that, in that the article in question doesn't make the claim Marduk is claiming it does nor even, ironically, does the official in question; he conspicuously refused to elaborate. Given the obvious propaganda value,
why?
Maybe because the truth is far closer to what I'm saying:
The battalion commander shrugged helplessly when we advised him that five days was a completely inadequate amount of time in which to train his soldiers. “This is all we have—they are needed on the front,” he replied with grim finality. A few days later, on a separate course that we were running for his medics, half of our class disappeared on the second day. “We have had casualties,” was the only explanation we received. Even in units that fall within the Ukrainian special operations command, most soldiers are sent to the front line with very little training. In one such unit, we estimated that just 20 percent had even fired a weapon before heading to combat.
Or the fact they're now conscripting women, despite the AFU supposedly having 700,000 men in the ranks already as a result of the most recent mobilizations? You can't square all of these circles, my dude. If you want an updated take on Russian casualty figures, I'll be glad to do that; you have an extremely bad tendency to cite older posts while failing to take into context this war is still unfolding.
But, what's the point of loophole debating? It's not some vs debate, where you get pointless internet points for "winning" by pointing to some in universe quote about lasers being useless against shields. You're not convincing anyone here, you're not making yourself look good. It's far more likely that in the future you'll be held up for ridicule like in the last post by
@Husky_Khan than it is you'll be hailed as the one true and prescient prophet... But, even if you did convince of the BS,so what? No one here is having any impact on the real world situation. Twisting interpretation of reality to fit what you want it to be won't actually twist reality itself. When it's all said and done, you're eventually going to have to admit your absurdly exaggerated stances were clearly wrong.
The amount of projection in this post is honestly hilarious. If it's no use in loophole debating, then why make this paragraph? Or, even better, this post given you were not the subject of the conversation to begin with? For someone who sees no "impact on the real world situation" or that I'm not "convincing anyone here", it's odd you've never stopped to consider that's exactly what you're achieving here with me? As I said, it's all projection, but since you brought up the subject of prophets:
Swift? Uh, mate, it's already past the point where that would be accurate. As for demanding payment in Rubles, how's that working so far and what makes you think it won't just lead to even less trade for the genocidal kleptocracy?
Truly, we live in an age of prophets with people like you around,
Russia’s Oil Revenue Soars Despite Sanctions, Study Finds:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered global condemnation and tough sanctions aimed at denting Moscow’s war chest. Yet Russia’s revenues from fossil fuels, by far its biggest export, soared to records in the first 100 days of its war on Ukraine, driven by a windfall from oil sales amid surging prices, a new analysis shows.
Russia earned what is very likely a record 93 billion euros in revenue from exports of oil, gas and coal in the first 100 days of the country’s invasion of Ukraine, according to data analyzed by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air, a research organization based in Helsinki, Finland. About two-thirds of those earnings, the equivalent of about $97 billion, came from oil, and most of the remainder from natural gas.
“The current rate of revenue is unprecedented, because prices are unprecedented, and export volumes are close to their highest levels on record,” said Lauri Myllyvirta, an analyst who led the center’s research.
I can only imagine you're so narrow minded and your world view is so filtered by your beliefs, that like a flat earther you'll bend over backwards to twist the evidence and logic to support those beliefs. That you can't even rationally examine any evidence that doesn't line up with what you've chosen to believe. If so, that's very, very sad. I'd pity you, if you hadn't chosen such a stupid stance to stand and fight for.
I mostly just find you a joke to be honest, especially with this fake sympathy here. You've spent this entire thread and every interaction with me in particular doing nothing
but personal attacks because that's all you can do. You've never been able to bring any citation with me, and in our last tangle you promptly fucked off when I was able to cite seven different sources to prove my case. You're not fooling anybody with these fake crocodile tears, because I realize exactly what you are.