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    The U.K. Defense Ministry said Sunday that the impact of the heavy casualties Russia is continuing to suffer in Ukraine varies dramatically across the country. The ministry's intelligence update said that the major cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg remain “relatively unscathed,” particularly among members of Russia's elite.

    In contrast, in many of Russia’s eastern regions, the death rate as a percentage of the population is “30-40 times higher than in Moscow.”

    The report highlighted that ethnic minorities often take the biggest hit. In the southern Astrakhan region, for example, about “75% of casualties come from the minority Kazakh and Tartar populations.”

    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/r...02202118.htmlr

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    Putin is trying to reconstitute a greater Russian empire built on the blood of Tatars, Buryats, Chechens, ethnic Siberians, Kazakhs.

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    Putin uses ethnic minorities as cannon fodder


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    White Libs use Black Americans as canon fodder ... for policies in white lib controlled cities and for the Summer of 2020 Dem insurrection.
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    The simple, basic historical fact is that the vast majority of US military casualties in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam were white kids.

    Putin is specifically going out of his way to keep white ethnic Russians from having to feel any pain or sacrifice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Putin is trying to reconstitute a greater Russian empire built on the blood of Tatars, Buryats, Chechens, ethnic Siberians, Kazakhs.
    You took the words right out of my mouth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eagle_Eye View Post
    You took the words right out of my mouth.
    I remember reading that the Free French Forces fighting Hitler in WW2 was actually composed of about half Africans and Asians from France's colonial empire. So seemingly General Degaulle was calling on ethnic minorities to save the French empire

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    The U.K. Defense Ministry said Sunday that the impact of the heavy casualties Russia is continuing to suffer in Ukraine varies dramatically across the country. The ministry's intelligence update said that the major cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg remain “relatively unscathed,” particularly among members of Russia's elite.

    In contrast, in many of Russia’s eastern regions, the death rate as a percentage of the population is “30-40 times higher than in Moscow.”

    The report highlighted that ethnic minorities often take the biggest hit. In the southern Astrakhan region, for example, about “75% of casualties come from the minority Kazakh and Tartar populations.”

    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/r...02202118.htmlr
    This is old news but it makes me wonder: how long will these minorities put up with having to fight a war for the Russian whites before they've had enough? The way Russian conducts their war seems illogical in any conventional sense. Using unmotivated prisoners as cannon fodder, using minorities disproportionately for a war that is not universally popular and against a country that poses no threat. I just have the feeling this has to implode eventually.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I remember reading that the Free French Forces fighting Hitler in WW2 was actually composed of about half Africans and Asians from France's colonial empire. So seemingly General Degaulle was calling on ethnic minorities to save the French empire
    And look what happened to their colonies.

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    Seems to me this war makes the timing to be ripe for a revolution within the Russian empire. Another implosion like the Soviet Union eventually?

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    Seems to me this war makes the timing to be ripe for a revolution within the Russian empire. Another implosion like the Soviet Union eventually?
    Maybe not;

    Hundreds of thousands cheer Putin in Moscow
    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...utin-in-Moscow
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    White Libs use Black Americans as canon fodder ... for policies in white lib controlled cities and for the Summer of 2020 Dem insurrection.
    And white cons used blacks as slaves.

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    Putin is a horrible man.

    He needs to be made to answer for his crimes against humanity.

    It could happen.

    Russia has a history of leaders being deposed and/or killed.

    I understand Putin is very afraid of being poisoned.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    The difference is Blacks and Japanese Americans WANTED to serve in WWII.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Maybe not;

    Hundreds of thousands cheer Putin in Moscow
    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...utin-in-Moscow
    In Moscow.
    Did you bother reading the OP?

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