Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

For it to be proportional the ratio needs to remain constant. Not can stay the same. Must stay the same

So if you don't know what the ratio is, then you don't know if it is constant so can't claim proportionality.

That's why you were asked to explain it. To show your understanding of the term or lack thereof

It’s amazing to think that not too long expressing support for Russia over America would have been career ending for media or Republican individuals

Proportional losses means when Russian losses increase so does Ukrainian. ... If the ratio is 4:1 then when Russian loses go from 1000 a day to 1500 then it is likely that Ukraine losses went from 250 to 375 on the same day.

Yeah, I know what proportional means (and it's a hell of a lot stricter than you seem to think); but if you're talking about who's winning and losing, you can't wave your hands around and say "I don't know what the ratio is" and then base your next argument on that unknown.

Sure, if the ratio of Russian to Ukrainian deaths is 4:1 your example might hold true. But is that the real figure? All reliable information from the frontlines, coming from both sides, indicates that it is not. The real figure for deaths is seemingly closer to 10:1 in the areas of active urban combat, and possibly 30 or 50:1 or higher in the "meat wave" sectors. Your assumption that the proportion remains the same is inherently flawed, because we know that Russia is sending troops on a one-way mission more and more, and we know that Ukraine is getting better at killing Russians further and further behind the frontline.

So once again, what's your definition of winning?

Interesting article posted recently about how Russia can’t afford to lose or win the war. If they gain control of eastern Ukraine they’ll have to bear the cost of rebuilding an area they have flattened with a shot economy. Where are all the locals who lived there living now?

Maybe not, but sure as hell, its treason when he orders his police and military to turn their weapons on protesting citizens of his country.

He's desperate, when you as a public figure are reduced to shilling for Putin, and reporting about supermarket trolleys, that's it! The absolute pits.

Seeing lots of reports of poisonings of children in Russia. Mostly in the communal facilities like schools. But now seeing propaganda from the top about children of migrants in Russia. It's smelling like the authorities have plans on the children of migrants to do what they did with the children of Ukraine. That is take their identity away. Give them Russian names. Raise as Russian as Russian can be in Russian families. And now with proposed laws coming in about lowering employment age get them into the economy as loyalists, fighting and working for Russia.

Sanctions are biting now.

Despicable behavior,but I guess we now expect nothing less from that cesspit of a country.

I never could understand the BBC underreporting on this conflict.

One interesting standout about the BBC programme Question Time in the years prior to the brexit vote was that not one pro EU UK MEP was ever invited onto it, yet Farage was invited on repeatedly and if I recall rightly I think he was on the panel something like 20 times.

If you were to believe that Russia had influenced Brexit to weaken EU unity then there's plenty of bias on display in the BBC to bolster that suspicion.

Kidnapped children and giving them to old kgb/fsb support people is something Russia has doing for years. Forced population growth i think it can be called. All the state run places like orphanages are empty for obvious reasons. I would not be surprised if north Korea and China were the main supplier is the past. It's all so far down the dystopia horror movie that's it's almost hard to believe.

I think the territorial"concessions " that Zelensky is talking about are 2 fold , (one) setting the stage to the incoming American regime that the Ukrainians are reasonable, they don't want this to be a forever war funded by the West ,

& Two , setting the stage for their own people , they'd already done this previously to an extent with Crimea, stating what is militarily possible/ or even likely..

That doesn't mean that Ukraine have written off their lost territories, but in this war , now . the Donbass, Geographically is not like kursk or kharkiv, a quick assault won't retake all or most of it , it would be a relentless slog ,(as the Russians have shown ) ,

The Russians struggled to take it in 2014 (once the Ukrainians started to get their act together)

They've slogged since 2022 , as well , at huge cost .. I don't think Ukraine is even considering that as an option,

The hinterlands must be exhausted!!