- 24 Dec 2022 20:55
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An estimated 100,000 Russians soldiers have been killed or wounded in the Ukraine War, prompting Western pundits to wonder how many more casualties Russia can tolerate.
They have overlooked the capacity of Western nations, particularly the U.S., to tolerate many deaths. More than 1 million people have died of COVID in the United States, yet people talk of a return to normalcy. People go about their routine lives, regardless of the many thousands killed each year from gun violence or opioid abuse.
Why should we assume the Russians are any less numbed to death, particularly in a society where the true number of fatalities and the volume of suffering are easily suppressed by the Putin regime?
I expect Putin can still draw another half million conscripts, if not from the ‘soft” westernized cities, then probably from the rural areas where access to the truth about the war is even more limited, and the population is more susceptible to appeals to preserve “traditional values” from the degenerate West.
Perhaps I am wrong, and I welcome any evidence that Russian support of the war has reached a breaking point and massive civil disruption is just around the corner.
They have overlooked the capacity of Western nations, particularly the U.S., to tolerate many deaths. More than 1 million people have died of COVID in the United States, yet people talk of a return to normalcy. People go about their routine lives, regardless of the many thousands killed each year from gun violence or opioid abuse.
Why should we assume the Russians are any less numbed to death, particularly in a society where the true number of fatalities and the volume of suffering are easily suppressed by the Putin regime?
I expect Putin can still draw another half million conscripts, if not from the ‘soft” westernized cities, then probably from the rural areas where access to the truth about the war is even more limited, and the population is more susceptible to appeals to preserve “traditional values” from the degenerate West.
Perhaps I am wrong, and I welcome any evidence that Russian support of the war has reached a breaking point and massive civil disruption is just around the corner.
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