gregorynyssa[asciilifeform]: In America's Final War (2024) by Andrei Martyanov, it is written that Russia is secretly winning and has already killed between 500k and 1M Ukrainian soldiers.
gregorynyssa[asciilifeform]: Mr Martyanov says that Russian soldiers are killing six to eight Ukrainians for every man that they lose.
gregorynyssa[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2024-08-16#1034336 << We need to trust that Mr Putin is playing nine-dimensional chess. Behind all of this, there has to be a master-plan.
dulapbot: Logged on 2024-08-16 17:44:20 signpost[asciilifeform]: ru allowing an incursion into their own territory persuades me of asciilifeform's cosmology. appears to be precisely one sovereign on earth, much theater to the contrary notwithstanding.
asciilifeform: gregorynyssa: there's a derisive joak in ru, that goes, roughly: 'ukrs won't be beaten unless first they get almost to moscow' (i.e. like germany in ww2)