Wilshire@lemmy.world to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · 1 year ago"We've used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine. And with it, they've destroyed 50% of Putin's army." - Ad targeted to Republicans to support Ukrainestreamable.comexternal-linkmessage-square172fedilinkarrow-up1975arrow-down123
arrow-up1952arrow-down1external-link"We've used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine. And with it, they've destroyed 50% of Putin's army." - Ad targeted to Republicans to support Ukrainestreamable.comWilshire@lemmy.world to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz · 1 year agomessage-square172fedilink
minus-squarefromagemangeur@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe over 1m stat is a bit of an exaggeration - the more accurate figure is closer to 750,000. See https://cepa.org/article/russias-military-manpower-crunch-will-worsen/ Charitably, 300,000 casualties would be ~40%. Of course it’s still very good value for military spending…
The over 1m stat is a bit of an exaggeration - the more accurate figure is closer to 750,000. See https://cepa.org/article/russias-military-manpower-crunch-will-worsen/
Charitably, 300,000 casualties would be ~40%. Of course it’s still very good value for military spending…