Mandela thought they did. Massive capital flight once the US and U.K. imposed their rather limited sanctions.
Following its invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of U.S. and partners’ sanctions and other economic measures, Russia’s economy in 2022 contracted by 2.1 percent (Figure 1),[ii] with record-high energy exports cushioning what would have been a far deeper contraction. Russia’s economy is over 5 percent smaller than had been predicted prior to the escalation,
yes, sorry, 70% is just the oil revenues, not the economy. My bad.
The Iran sanctions that were meant to get them to agree to nuclear inspections achieved that. Whether any of it was worthwhile is another question.
Military facilities are often near or amongst civilian infrastructure. That's the case in Gaza, Ukrainian but also Russia, Israel, France and the UK.
Nelson Mandela a very kind and generous man
One thing's for sure: they're all dead because of Putin's regime.
yeh, there's no way the ukrainians have only lost thirty thousand. i read the article when topcat posted it before you.
I've said it before, but fuck it. I'll repeat.
while i agree that the butcher's bill is really high and it's really shit it's getting really really dull hearing about how shitty putin is, how his hands are dripping with blood and so on all the bloody time. in essence, calling putin a cunt palls after a while and it is a long time since it added anything to your analysis. this bit about how he's living in opulence and the poor fuckers who do the fighting and dying are living in shit has been done so often by so many people that it's a real cliche - i'm thinking of eg blackadder, the crass song 'general bacardi' and so on. i'm sure there's an interesting discussion of the bbc findings to be had - but your platitudinous post adds nothing to the thread beside the charts and linkPutin's hands are dripping with blood. Fuck him and his murderous regime. He sits in luxury and opulence while he sends Russia's working class (and anyone else he can force/trick/conscript into joining the slaughter) off into the meat grinder.
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Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead
In the second 12 months on the front line the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year.www.bbc.co.uk
So you're OK with tens of thousands of young men being needlessly slaughtered if you believe the tactic is "successful" for Russia?
that's because they were never intended to survive six months - i see you're a betting man, would you not have taken the odds?
You seem to be a bit slow to let this fact sink in, so let me remind you one last time, You've been on ignore for over two years now.
Imagine how utterly devastating it must be for the friends and families of the murdered victims and the women who were raped to see these criminals back on their streets.
3:5 is actually fairly poor for the side that's been mostly on the defensive. There have been pushes that have seen the 5:1 losses you'd expect, but the Russians have learned to not do that so much now that they don't have an army of prisoners to use. So they've been slowly chipping away and that reduces their losses and increases Ukraine's. But it's still pretty much what you'd expect out of a defensive war. The numbers themselves are full of fudge and likely no-one ever will know the real statistics, but the ratio of them feels about right for the sort of fighting that's been going on since the Big Counter failed.
i don't think it is anywhere near that. russians are firing, from western accounts, between five to one and ten to one more artillery, the biggest cause of casualties in this war. add to that all the bombs they are dropping.
