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uponit7771

(90,347 posts) Fri Mar 4, 2022, 12:26 PM Mar 2022

Russian senator admit horrible losses in Ukraine

https://mobile.twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499763642170019846

"Yesterday the conscripts, who were forced to sign a contract or signed for them, were withdrawn from the war zone in #Ukraine. But from a company of a hundred men only four were left alive."

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Russian senator admit horrible losses in Ukraine (Original Post) uponit7771 Mar 2022 OP

Wars are almost always about sovereignty or resources, and usually the latter bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #1

bucolic_frolic

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1. Wars are almost always about sovereignty or resources, and usually the latter

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Fri Mar 4, 2022, 12:52 PM

Mar 2022

and sovereignty includes the idea of culture, economic and social system, religion, and geography. At least in the minds of its leaders. The troops who shed the blood and die are never polled. Many are too young to have the foggiest idea of what is going on.

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