"Moscow underestimated the strength of Ukraine’s resistance," a top intel official said, but Putin may feel compelled to fight on with "reckless disregard" for civilians.
www.nbcnews.com
As evidenced by Chechnya and Syria, Russian military doctrine advocates for the killing of civilians in order to apply another pressure point on the opposition command structure.
That is very interesting. Some back of the envelope calculations:
In Vietnam, for both US forces and South Korean forces for every man killed, three more were hospitalized wounded. If 3000 have been killed (avg of 2k-4k) then another 9,000 have been wounded. So Russians may have suffered 12,000 dead and wounded combined in just 2 weeks of fighting.
In ten years of war in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union suffered 14,500 dead and 45,000 wounded. Eventually forcing them to give up and leave.
Should combat continue for just a year in Ukraine, at this rate the Russians will have suffered
81,000 dead, and 240,000 wounded.
Ukranian claims are 12,000 dead Russian, so many bodies Russia refuses to pick them up (and has portable crematoriums). Russian mothers are all told that their dead children are "MIA", which is why 1000s have called Ukrainian help lines asking for information on their "MIA" child.
Whatever the actual number of killed, this many killed cannot be hidden forever...can it?
