Thread by @TrentTelenko

People are looking at the raw numbers here, 🧵look at the casualty ratio instead:
9861 Russian KIA
16,153 Russian WIA
The Russians have 37% KIA & 63% WIA, a 2 to 3 ratio.

This represents an utter collapse the Russian medical evacuation & treatment system. Note, no "missing"
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https://twitter.com/LawDavF/status/1505977425460662285

...or POW categories.

That lack of "Missing" & "POW" categories, which are standard in professional military casualty reporting, is a "poker tell" regards there being more Russian military casualties & losses.

There are a lot of small Russian columns wiped out by
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...Ukrainian forces.

There is no "Platinum 5-minutes," no "Golden hour" in the Russian Army.

Russian leaders simply do not care for the lives of the conscripts in their charge.

Compare that to 2 dead to 3 wounded ratio of the Russian Army to the between 1-to-7 and 1-to-10
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...ratio that the US Military has decreased from 2001 to 2022.

The US Military cares for its soldiers, sailors, Airmen, & Marines. And they all know it.

And it isn't just the medical care. It is also things like Military Chaplin's.

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In WW2, there were a lot of soldiers who took extensive wounds, got the golden hour treatment, then later "Died of wounds."

This is where the Chaplins made a life and death difference.

You see, they not only ministered to the last rites. They buttressed the souls
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of those in their care by telling them everything had been done to save them but that they had to fight to save their own lives.

And, more often than not, those wounded American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines did just that.

It's why the US military keeps them

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...despite repeated attempts by the "Secular Fundamentalists'" of the American Left's complete this final "Secular cleansing" of U.S. institutions.

Chaplin's wartime role in saving lives is one of those things they "pretend not to know," but the JAG corps argues to the Courts
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The 2 dead to 3 wounded ratio of the Russian Army in Ukraine is not much different from the Red Army in WW2.

Nor is it much different from the casualties the Union Army took in the US Civil War.
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The Soviet Army eliminated chaplins and replaced them with the much less effective Political Commissar.

I don't know if the Russian Army has any ROC chaplins. I've seen no evidence of it in Russian propaganda.

Which is telling.
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Napoleon said: "In war, the moral is to the physical as ten is to one."

It is for that moral purpose the US Military cares enough to beat "Secular Fundamentalists'" to retain chaplins for its men's (& increasingly women's) bodies & souls.

Russia's Army does not bother.

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