Russia like the former Soviet Union does not consider your fulminations reasonable, the people killed can be replaced by someone else, as long as it is. But the achieved goal will give what it wants, because now Russia is playing for big stakes, what if they lose a few dozen thousand people, how the gained ground will allow you to recruit more in their place?
And shit like this is why Russia gets
wrecked in every war it takes part in, even when it wins.
Do you know what the overall most salient property of the red army was during WWII?
It lost the most men.
Did you know that the they still were able to push back the Wehrmacht was because A) The Americans were shipping them huge amounts of military supplies, including boots, trucks, trains.... B) The Wehrmacht was forced to split their attention to the western front. C) Allied strategic bombing was wrecking German industry.
WWII is the
only war the Russians have fought against an opponent even vaguely in their weight class and
won in something like a hundred and fifty years. And they bled
horrifically to do so, and would have lost without the rest of the allies anyways.
They are attuned to a long and grueling war in which losses mount and mount until one side can't replenish men and equipment at a sufficient pace.
And by virtue of the fact that it is Russia that is mentally and physically prepared for such a battle, it takes much greater losses than those of its opponents for its replenishment system to finally collapse.
The thing is, this time Russia very clearly is
not mentally and physically prepared for such a battle. They don't have the equipment, they don't have the training, and they
certainly do not have the determination or will to drown the enemy in a sea of blood in order to extract victory.
And part of the reason for that, is because of
all the people they have lost in past wars due to their stupid and evil paradigm of war.
To give you some proportional comparison, the US spent
twenty years in Afghanistan, and lost less than 2500 people. Note that this is while fighting with
much less strict rules of engagment than the soviets had while they were there. The Soviets spent
ten years in Afghanista, and lost just under 14,500 people. That's roughly taking 6x as many losses, over half the time, so something like 12x the death rate.
Now, these are relatively small losses on the whole, but the
comparative rate when fighting the same enemies in the same place is what I wanted to make an example of here. Next we're going to compare WWII for something of more significant scale, though disparate circumstances:
These are
military deaths, not civilians:
Soviet losses in WWII: 8.6-11.4 million, estimated.
German losses in WWII: 4.4-5.3 million, estimated.
Japanese losses in WWII: 2.1-2.3 million, estimated.
US military losses in WWII: 407,300
UK military losses in WWII: 387,300
Do you see that scale of comparison?
The Russians lost
twice as many people as the Germans, while they were basically
just fighting the Germans, and the Germans were fighting every single allied nation simultaneously.
They lost 4-5 times as many as the Japanese.
They lost more than ten times as many men as the Americans and British put together. Fifteen times on the high end of estimates.
And keep in mind, this in spite of the Americans fighting an entire second war in the Pacific theater, with the Brits and Aussies chipping in where they could on that side as well.
The Russians lost more men, more land, more military hardware, and more civilians on top of all of that, than any other nation on the war. If there losses are on the high end of the estimate, then
the USSR lost more men than every other participant in the war combined.
Every time that Russia 'wins' a war, they make themselves drastically weaker for the next war. Their absolute contempt for human life, including their own soldiers, sabotages their effectiveness, their economy, their morale,
everything.
Yeah, the Russians can disagree with America on the worth of a man and his utility in war,
and that's why America won the Cold War and became the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, while Russia is getting its ass kicked by an ex-vassal state a fraction of their size.