| TallSilhouette said: ANOTHER 740 casualties? How many days of similar figures in a row is that? It's like every day Russia deliberately sends a thousand troops into the meat grinder. |
It has been called "Battle hardening" forever, or realistically could be called "Weeding out the weak". Happens in every war. A certain percentage of soldiers simply die (stupidity, inexperience, mental breakdowns, etc.). With likely over 350k people pressed into service, Putin and his cronies can easily lose 10-20% of them. After that he has around 250-300k soldiers that can fight. As long as the weeded out mainly consist of village idiots from the provinces, and not citizens of major towns, noone will care in mainland Russia, certainly not Putin and his cronies.
The logic is insane, but it is logic that always works in a totalitarian state.
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