i wish russia would just fucking accept that it lost already.
Historically speaking this is kind of the problem with fighting Russia. You can kill so many more of them than they kill of you and then they just keep coming.
They are also extremely competent in turning conquered populations into meat squads. With centuries of experience. Which should terrify anyone sitting on the far side of conquered countries.
This is the reason they want Ukraine.
Natural resources and free slaves to dig them up.
Free meat waves into poland and the baltics.
Works less good when you can pick them off with modern weapons but yeah fuck them hard.
Decimates half? So they destroyed 5%?
Hehe, literal meaning
And some people clearly don’t like a joke, right?
300 to 400 soldiers.
Typical Russian battalion is 600 to 800.
The word ‘decimates’ means to eliminate 10%. So if used correctly, it means that 30 to 40 Russians were killed. The word is hardly ever used correctly.
That may have been the original definition, but words evolve. One of the definitions from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is ‘to cause great destruction or harm to’. So it is used correctly by modern definitions.
Let’s still be considerate to those time traveling from the Roman Empire.
decimate /dĕs′ə-māt″/
transitive verb
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To destroy or kill a large part of (a group of people or organisms).
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To inflict great destruction or damage on.
“The storm decimated the region.”
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To reduce markedly in amount.
“a profligate heir who decimated his trust fund.”
While some of the other definitions are “to take a tenth of” or “one out of every ten”, the top three are usually the most common usage of the word in modern times.
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A professional journalist should know it, though.
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It’s not a correction though, it’s misplaced pedantry. The modern definition does not match the roman practice.
Maybe they decimated them 6-7 times
Wow we see how smart you are, now go back to reading thesaurus.
