RE: Dictators....dropping like flies12 Jan 2026 18:07
Perhaps forest could explain what sources lead him to believe there is a 30:1 death ratio in this war of russkies vs ukrainians?
… both sides will try to skew reporting in their favour, and hide losses, so accurate and precise reporting will be difficult. but forest seems a bizarrely long, long away from any remotely credible sources that i am aware of.
recent BBC summary suggested, up to circa 140,000 ukrainian dead vs 243,000 to 352,000 dead russkies. … even if you are not a fan of bbc, that’s still orders of magnitude way different to forest’s guess.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62n922dnw7o
(putin also seems to be selectively selecting ethnic and religious minorities from russia to be turned into sausage meat. …again, figures will be very difficult to get hold off, but if you are a light-skinned, fair-haired orthodox slav christian, seems you are much less likely to get killed in putin’s war compared with darker complexioned minorities from outside moscow and its suburbs, particularly if you make the mistake of being poor, muslim or buddhist.)