People care about round number. Russians are people too.

So over 1.5Million casualties…

Why would Germany buy Gripen? They are part of Eurofighter, which is about as good as Gripen. Especially if you are worried about the US not delivering parts. After all the Gripens engine and a lot of other parts are from the US. Eurofighter can be build without US parts.

So by buying F-35 Germany gets a nuclear capable stealth fighter. We have seen how they were able to operate over Russian made air defence system without too much of a problem in Venezuela and Iran.

Russian military deaths in WWI were about a third of what they had in WWII. It is hard to be specific, as it ended up in a revolution with the Soviet Union being created. The Soviet Afghan war, which was part of what ended the Soviet Union had significantly lower causalities then that.

If Russia ends its war against Ukraine, then the attacks and sanctions hurting Russian energy export would end. Maybe push for that then.

Which includes WW2, when the US had about the same population as Russia has today. This is honestly insane.

This is another problem for Russias Starlink alternative.

According to a survey carried out in 2025 in the EU, more than 60% of low-value products inspected did not comply with European requirements or safety standards.

That is the difference. If you buy it from an EU based retailer, they will have imported something like a shipping container filled with the same type of product. So you need to basically check for that product once, if it is dangerous or whatever. If you get a bunch of very different products coming in via parcels, that can easily be 1000x more checks being required, which is basically impossible to do.

This is not about punishing China, but to make sure that Chinese sellers are actually following EU laws, when selling their products in the EU.

When Russia moved supplies from the rural parts of the country to Moscow.

That would be over 1% of the pre war Russian population being casualties in this war.

This will make replacing Starlink a lot harder for Russia. Now Proton and Angara production has to be stopped as well, but that should be possible.

They actually used to have a deal to not attack grain shipments in 2022 and 2023. That was not extended by Russia, but it did happen.

This is pretty close to half a years worth of births for Russia and obviously the lost even more. Last time Russia did mobilize a lot of young men left the country. So it will be very likely worse then that. Oh and Putin cares about the number of births in Russia, so those numbers might well be fake.

The FP7 is basically a replacement for the Soviet S300 missiles. Ukraine still has a lot of those systems around and they work decently well, but they can not make new missiles for them. However making a good interceptor missile is really hard. So they start to produce a simpler ground attack version now, so they can then change the production line to interceptor production later. Btw the S300 can also do ground attack.

They have a lot of cardboard for packages in them. Also a lot of other products burn reasonably well.

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That is honestly a real problem, that you do not automatically block the users from an instance, when you block the entire instance.

He has made the same original post on Bluesky as well. So you can probably see the other posts he has made.

The design priority was almost certainly to build a “stealth” plane cheaply and quickly. So the Russians took the Su-27 and put a new body around it. Hence the very similar dimensions, wide spread out engines and so forth. Without modern jets Russia just can not claim to be a superpower and Russia really wants to be seen as one.

EDIT: Also to scam the Indians out of money. That was a key part as well.

Honestly, if Su-57 is a fith-generation aircraft, then so are Eurofighter, Rafale and Gripen. All of them have some stealth features and actually S-ducks, AESA radars and proper sensor fusion.

The 30 minute estimate is basically from the time the actual fighting starts. It is really not that crazy. As in time starts when a drone spots the Russian soldier. It then takes time for the FPV drone or whatever to arrive and then actual find the soldier again and attack him. 30minutes for that is realistic. Also it is not life span, but becoming a casulty. So being so insured that you can no longer fight is also an option.

Otherwise this would be insane. The actively fought over front is something like 500km long. Even if you have only a soldier for every km, you would see losses of 24,000 soldiers every day.