Clearly your understanding of common sense and mine differ vastly. Comparing the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany, creating a battle for the Soviet Union’s very existence, and an invasion BY Russia of a neighboring country where it’s Ukraine’s existence at stakes turns “common sense” on its head.
Why is there cultivated uncertainty about the number of Ukraine dead when other commentators put it at around 500,000? The answer is: if the issue is funding Ukraine, the administration understands that a casualty report like that will not generate continued support. The fog of war is particularly thick in this conflict for a good reason. The Soviet casualties during W2 is a legitimate indication of the relative size of the antagonists, as well as of their will. Russian sees Nato incursion as a red-line. Why not believe them? There are multiple reports that Ukraine is already done. Why argue when we can just wait and see? It is just a shame that we helped Ukraine wreck their own country, that we pushed the Russians into the arms of the CCP.
Clearly your understanding of common sense and mine differ vastly. Comparing the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany, creating a battle for the Soviet Union’s very existence, and an invasion BY Russia of a neighboring country where it’s Ukraine’s existence at stakes turns “common sense” on its head.
Why is there cultivated uncertainty about the number of Ukraine dead when other commentators put it at around 500,000? The answer is: if the issue is funding Ukraine, the administration understands that a casualty report like that will not generate continued support. The fog of war is particularly thick in this conflict for a good reason. The Soviet casualties during W2 is a legitimate indication of the relative size of the antagonists, as well as of their will. Russian sees Nato incursion as a red-line. Why not believe them? There are multiple reports that Ukraine is already done. Why argue when we can just wait and see? It is just a shame that we helped Ukraine wreck their own country, that we pushed the Russians into the arms of the CCP.