There’s no evidence at all that the Putin regmine is even slightly moved by casualty numbers. Indeed - their losses may well be part of the plan - an expected and accepted trade-off. It’s not stated enough how internal ethnic cleansing of trading useless mouths for prime ukrainain lands and population is a perfectly logical conclusion. If you’re a completely depraved petromafia gangster ghoul…numbers mean nothing unless you’re talking about money and sq. km of stolen land. The numbers shock some people, but pretending the Kremlin cares is like throwing ice cubes at the sun.
Yep. And putting yourself in the shoes of a completely black hearted ghoul like Putin - it’s better off to have those monsters you created die at the front than come home and cause havoc. This war continues until (a) Putin dies or (b) manpower recruitment fails to keep up with the demand. And in either case - Russia is completely doomed going forward without MASS immigration. Having a century-long period of ethno-corproate warlordism in a post-war, post-putin russia might be a damper on the immigration levels they are going to need to sustain their heavy-industry, labour intensive workforce. It certainly isn’t likely to attract a modern, productive global workforce.