{"id":11448,"date":"2025-06-12T20:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=11448"},"modified":"2025-06-12T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:11:34","slug":"vladimir-putin-has-incurred-one-million-casualties-in-his-pointless-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=11448","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin has incurred one million casualties in his pointless war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In October 2022, we warned that Russian President Vladmir Putin was willing to exchange more than 300,000 Russian coffins for a modern-day empire in Ukraine. Tragically, we were not wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anything, we underestimated Putin\u2019s preparedness to kill and maim as many Russian, Chechen, North Korean, Cuban and Chinese soldiers and conscripts as needed to achieve his Peter the Great-like realm. Today, Russian casualties in Ukraine surpassed one million, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter how willing Putin is, his meat grinder tactics are not militarily sustainable. In April, Gen. Christopher Cavoli, dual hatted as Commander, United States European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, testified before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee that the Russian military can likely only sustain its current operations for about 12 to 24 more months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the current rate of daily casualties for the Russian and their allies \u2014 about 1,200 a day \u2014 that translates to another 438,000 to 876,000 Russian casualties. The Kremlin continues to feed the Ukrainian meat-grinder with little regard for its soldiers. As Cavoli would go on and say, \u201cRussian commanders still emphasize quantity and mass over skill and operational acumen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian defenders have become quite efficient in killing and wounding Russian soldiers \u2014 or those dressed for the part \u2014 but they come back the next day, along the same avenues of approach, with the same result, gaining just a few meters of territory in exchange for appalling numbers of dead and wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gavin Newsom says military deployment in LA a threat to democracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite President President Trump saying, \u201cIt\u2019s time to stop this madness, it\u2019s time to halt the killing, it\u2019s time to end this senseless war,\u201d Putin continues to attack along the frontlines and with daily bombardments of Ukrainian cities with drones, ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles. Meanwhile, Ukraine continues its valiant defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin does not see eye-to-eye with Trump because he does not want to stop the carnage. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Martha Raddatz of ABC News, \u201cI feel strongly that Putin does not want to finish this war. Inside his mind, it\u2019s impossible to end this war without total defeat of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made that clear in April when he said, \u201cRussia will accept nothing less than total victory over Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are multiple fights being waged in Ukraine concurrently \u2014 deep, close, rear, and interdiction. For now, though, the most important fight is for control of the skies above Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine is capable of maintaining its current positions in the close fight; however, success depends on prevailing in interdiction and deep-strike efforts. Concurrently, Ukraine is insufficiently armed to effectively defeat the continuous drone and missile assaults targeting their urban areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz described the recent attacks on Ukrainian cities as the \u201cmost serious war crimes\u201d and \u201cterror against civilians.\u201d Moscow, he said, is escalating the situation and attempting \u201cto create a bloodbath\u201d instead of negotiating with Ukraine. As Zelensky notes, \u201cWithout the help of the United States, we will have more losses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration, however, has chosen to punt the problem to Europe in order to focus on their \u201cpriority theater.\u201d In his testimony before the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said, \u201cAs we shift our focus to the Pacific, we are counting on our NATO allies to devote more resources to defense to forge a strong shield of deterrence in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the most inopportune time of the war, as Russia launches hundreds of drones a day at Ukrainian cities \u2014 killing and wounding civilians and first responders with no legitimate military targets in sight \u2014 Hegseth announced that the U.S. will reduce funding allocated for military assistance to Ukraine in its upcoming defense budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was preceded by the White House announcement last week that they were redirecting key anti-drone technology \u2014 20,000 missiles earmarked earlier for Ukraine \u2014 to U.S. Air Force units in the Middle East. Then Israel stepped in to relieve some of the pressure against the ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missile threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Zelensky continues to await a response from the White House concerning his request to purchase ten Patriot Air Defense Systems in April, Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mykhailo Brodsky announced the transfer of an undetermined number of Patriot systems to Ukraine that were provided to them by the U.S. in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine reportedly had eight Patriot systems prior to this announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This in addition to the ten German air defense missile systems that were sent to Ukraine in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following their lead, the United Kingdom approved a deal on Wednesday to secure $2.2 billion in funding for additional air defense and multipurpose missile systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But defeating the individual missile does not defeat the threat. That requires destroying the weapons systems, and Ukraine is doing just that with its own weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operation \u201cSpiderweb\u201d on June 2 reportedly destroyed 34 percent of the Russian strategic bomber fleet that is being used to launch cruise missile attacks against Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow-on deep strikes over the weekend against the Kristall oil depot, Engels-2 and Dyagilevo air bases, Savasleyka airfield , Azot chemical plant, Kazan gunpowder plant, and VNIIR-Progress facility targeted the weapon systems, their support networks, munitions production, and funding sources for Russia\u2019s terror campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heightened sanctions against Russia will not prevent further carnage \u2014 they may actually accelerate it. Sanctions are part of the solution, but they must be parlayed with other instruments of national power to have any effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The piecemealing of air defense systems in Ukraine will only provide limited results. To control its skies, Ukraine needs a sustained, integrated and layered air defense network, including a No-Fly zone, similar to the one Israel employed to defeat two Iranian missile attacks in April and October of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merz\u2019s message is clear: \u201cRussia only understands force \u2014 so the West must show it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, NATO weapons systems, manned by NATO Soldiers, will be needed to provide Ukrainian civilians with security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, Putin\u2019s killing fields are in Ukraine. If he is left unchecked by Washington, London and Brussels, they might soon find themselves ordering coffins for NATO defenders, beginning with the Baltic States or Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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