This war is not sustainable

 

Jeffrey St. Clair>>

 

+ According to a piece in the WSJ this week, “in the first half of this year, three times as many Ukrainians died as were born.” The piece cites a confidential Ukrainian estimate that tallies the number of dead Ukrainian troops at 80,000 and the wounded at 400,000. In addition, since Russia’s seizures of Ukrainian territory over the past decade Ukraine has lost another 10 million former citizens who are now under occupation or fled as refugees.

 

+ This war is not sustainable. Who will be the last Russian conscript or Ukrainian teen to die in a conflict that should have been resolved soon after it began?

 

+ Last week, Putin called for the Russian military to be increased by another 180,000 troops–the third such increase since Putin ordered the full-scale Ukraine invasion in 2022 (with 137,000 and 170,000 soldiers added during those announcements). China. The new decree would swell the size of the Russian military to 1.5 million active troops (supported by 890,000 civilians), making Russia the world’s second-largest military force behind China.