Seems like copium is finally running low.
Jokes aside though, we’ve suspected numbers like this for a long time, but seeing them confirmed like this is shocking. Western delusions and chauvinism are murdering Ukrainians at an industrial rate. Being Western estimates they’re probably still lowballed as well.
Can’t find it right now, but iirc the BBC today reported Russia - excluding the PRs - suffered about 3.5k deaths total in 4 months. Still tragic, but Ukraine’s suffering that every every 3 weeks tops. Insanity.
The whole scale of the impact this has on Ukrainian civilians is often overlooked in the media. 4+ MILLION people fled the country. Up to a thousand people a day seem to be losing their life.
This is enormous. These 4+ million people have to go somewhere in the future. Will they go back to a destroyed or possibly annexed country? Will they remain in Poland who suddenly has to deal with millions of extra civilians? Will they be spread out among EU countries? That already have a huge problem with refugees? What will they do with the current refugees (many of whom are not white)? Shit will hit the fan in Europe. And the right will try to get even more ground because of it.
But Pootin bad so keep this war going, right libs?
Great point and honestly thinking about it now, I can’t see a future for those refugees or future rump Ukraine, period.
Ukraine will likely lose its access to the Black Sea. It will definitely lose the East, which means almost its entire industrial base and natural resources. It has lost and is continuing to lose a substantial amount of its workforce and consumer base. The women and children have fled, the men are getting killed and wounded. It will retain a traumatized, beaten, crippled and old rump population.
And this remaining rump Ukraine, a corrupt neoliberal oligarchy even before the war, will be hit with further shock therapy (as per Von der Leyen calling for Ukraine increasing its attractiveness for investment today) and be plundered till eternity by all the debt and war leases it’s accumulating currently.
Oh and as cherry on top we flooded this place - filled with radical lunatics as is - with untrackable weapons.
Yeah no, those refugees will have no choice but stay away. Material support for them will diminish as the libs mind starts to attach to the next thing. The refugees will become increasingly disillusioned with the West as Ukraine will be dropped and abandoned eventually. Weapons and instability from rump Ukraine will permeate all of Europe eventually.
But hey, have you seen that new meme of Putler with makeup xddd haha eww Russian man gay