pelespirit comments on Russia Loses More Troops in a Month in Ukraine Than USSR Lost in 10 Years in Afghanistan, Stubb Says

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I can't get over how many people that is. He should have left a long time ago. These are all of his men in their prime.

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[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Russia has a death cult. They are real world necrophage cultist state. No amount of death matters.

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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

They just have a similar value on life as China has, none, and this isn't something new, this all goes back to Tsar-ist times, but may be getting a bit worse as Russia gets more desperate to fulfill the current strong man in power's wishes.

John McCain described Russia as a Mafia owned Gas Station and when you think of Russia from that perspective everything else kind of starts to make sense.

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[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

I get what you mean and am in no way an expert on China or their culture.

Russkie's disdain to human life goes from Herodotus, through the Mongol/Golden Yoke era and straight to modernity.

Renaissance in Europe started about 13xx. Golden Yoke period in Muscovy ended in 1480.

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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I would say I completely agree, but during the Mongols and Huns time causing headaches for Russia they were mostly city-states, rather than an actual nation state yet. So Tsar-ist is as far back as you can really say and have it mean collective Russia as a whole. Gotta remember Kyiv predates all of Russia by a couple of hundred years, Rus the original city-state was a colony of Kyiv.

As far as China goes, I'm no expert either, but their history is full of hundreds of thousands or millions being killed off somehow, usually driven by man's own actions, even now men are dying lonely due to their dumb ass birthing policies. Life is meaningless to them, and women's lives are worth even less.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

Look at their today numbers. You can watch them go in real time. It doesn't say how many of them are from sickness and old age vs. the war, but it has to be a huge part of it, right?

https://worldpopulationclock.net/russia-live-population-clock/

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Rosstat stopped publishing most monthly birth and death data in 2025, so recent figures rest on partial releases and independent estimates

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[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I remember back in 2022 Zaluzhnyi had an assumption that the way to stop the war is to make UAF cause enough casualties.

Hope died after the first 300,000. Boy was he wrong on that one.

Edit: ah if you go deep enough, Herodotus and Pliny the elder claimed that north of the pontic Scythian lands and Borisphen/Dnipro source lived tribes of androfagoi, who ate humans and decorated themselves with human remains. Russia is only embracing tradition.

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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Russians are brainwashed and tightly controlled, and they've been in this state of being basically since Tsar-ist times, you don't just shake off generations of manipulation and conditioning, they're going to be a problem until they choose to solve it or somebody chooses to solve them.

One story stands out to me about the Soichi Olympics, where the visiting athletes were basically warned about all of the spy devices by very scared staff, in mother Russia Big Brother is always watching (just like America these days).

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