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ChrisO_wiki

@ChrisO_wiki

Nov 4 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

1/ The vast number of Russian casualties sustained in the war in Ukraine will one day require a reckoning, warns a Russian warblogger. He laments that Russia missed the opportunity to conquer Ukraine in 2014 after the revolution which ousted the pro-Russian leadership. ⬇️

2/ "Freeze, freeze, winds of the fields!
Don't disturb us in the mown rye...
In the morning, in the morning, I'll set out on my journey.
And you remember me, but do you hear, don't wait..."
['Freeze, Winds of the Field', by the Russian black metal band Temnozor]

3/ "I don't know how the statistically significant losses of this conflict will be explained in the future. How will they explain the loss of over 1.5 million soldiers on both sides in the battle for four regions that could have been taken almost bloodlessly in 2014?

4/ "When will the statistics of losses in the battle for some random village, the significance of which lies only in the symbolic necessity of its capture, be revealed?

5/ "When will they begin to study an ordinary forest plantation near the village and discover that battalions were once stationed there, and then they were gone. And the meaning of this forest plantation is only an ordinary inch of land, the capture of which changed nothing.

6/ "I'm just curious, will the question "why" arise later? How justified is all this? After all, the victorious bravado will end, and they will study the conflict from a historical perspective, find the guilty and the heroes, analyse and calculate the losses.

7/ "I think the war will wipe everything away. After the war, everyone will be too lazy to figure anything out, and the freshness of the conflict will be lost. It was and it was. Is this the first time?" /end

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