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19 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

Looking for the optimistic side...

 

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I'll take this as well - recent numbers

Details: The total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 16 September 2025 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.]:

  • approximately 1,096,430 (+910) military personnel
  • 11,184 (+0) tanks
  • 23,274 (+5) armoured combat vehicles
  • 32,810 (+26) artillery systems
  • 1,490 (+2) multiple-launch rocket systems
  • 1,217 (+0) air defence systems
  • 422 (+0) fixed-wing aircraft
  • 341 (+0) helicopters
  • 59,719 (+310) operational-tactical UAVs
  • 3,718 (+0) cruise missiles
  • 28 (+0) ships/boats
  • 1 (+0) submarine
  • 61,770 (+72) vehicles and fuel tankers
  • 3,965 (+0) special vehicles and other equipment.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/09/16/7531062/

The flood of identified Russian war dead continues on the Poteru database.

4,106 1st-17th September. About 240/day... Higher than any complete month. And many more will not have public obituaries.

This is very likely due to changes in Russian reporting, lots of old deaths being reported now.

136,845 identified by name. There will be some mistakes, but lots and lots not publicly identified. I think it's almost impossible for true Russian deaths to be below 200k by now. Wouldn't surprise me if it's 250k.

This doesn't include force mobilised Ukrainians or other non-Russians.

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Posted
On 9/13/2025 at 9:24 AM, Parliament said:

Long past time Europe divests from Russian energy.  They layed down with the Devil and need to just deal with the expense of moving to more expensive energy.  Suck it up.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/eu-considers-faster-russian-oil-gas-exit-after-us-pressure-2025-09-10/

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STRASBOURG, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The European Union is considering a faster phase-out of Russian fossil fuels as part of new sanctions against Moscow, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday after U.S. pressure on Europe to stop buying Russian oil.
A ban on seaborne Russian crude oil has cut the EU's Russian oil imports by 90%, but Hungary and Slovakia still import via a pipeline and Europe is expected to purchase about 13% of its gas from Russia this year, though that is down from 45% before Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, EU data shows.

EU officials are in Washington to discuss coordination on further Russia sanctions to cut off funding for its war in Ukraine. However, internal divisions and the need for global support raise questions over how effective such steps will be.

 

Also long past time we take all of Russia's trapped foreign assets and turn them into weapons to kill Russians with.  Every dollar.

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46 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

136,845 identified by name. There will be some mistakes, but lots and lots not publicly identified. I think it's almost impossible for true Russian deaths to be below 200k by now. Wouldn't surprise me if it's 250k.

If a million casualties, then 200,000 - 250,000 dead seems right, given that their level of battlefield medical care is third world.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/09/16/russia-brainwashing-camps-ukrainian-kids/86178414007/

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 Russia is holding tens of thousands of kidnapped Ukrainian children in a sprawling, "potentially unprecedented" network of more than 200 militarization and "brainwashing" camps, according to a Sept. 16 report from a group of war crime investigators.

"What we’re seeing is an industrialized network of re-education, aka brainwashing to turn Ukrainian children into Russians and, in some cases, to turn certain Ukrainian children into soldiers," said Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab, the group behind the report.

Russia's forcible transfer and reeducation of Ukrainian children, and in some cases militarization of them, is occurring at a much larger scale than was previously known, the lab's investigators found. They tracked the children to 210 sites, including summer camps, sanatoriums and military bases inside of Russia and occupied Ukrainian territories.

 

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Posted (edited)
12 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Yeah it’s obvious that Russia’s hope with the desperate drones into Poland and Romania was to keep more equipment from getting to Ukraine. Do the opposite. 

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Posted (edited)
19 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

if the price of everything keeps going up, and there are already shortages of some things, it makes sense to take all your money out and buy as many things as humanly possible while they are still available and at a lower price point.

Watching Constantine’s Wednesday economic report, he reminded me of of a different aspect of people taking all their money out.  When the Russian people know they are about to be fucked by the government, they try to take out as many rubles as possible, and buy euros and American dollars. They know there is a real possibility that rubles will be massively devalued, and you don’t want to be left with rubles in the bank.    One, they might create some rule that just takes your money or limits the amount of money you can withdraw.  Second, the bank might fail, or if not fail, may simply suspend banking until such time as the central bank gives it more money.  Either way the customer has no access to the rubles.    

Constantine was contacted by cold call salespeople who thought he still lived in Russia - both a Lada salesman and a real estate agent in Moscow who were desperate to make a sale, offering up to 50% discount on the Lada, and a condo with payments not due until late 2026, with assistance reducing the interest rate of the mortgage if he chose to borrow.  One admitted that everyone was going bankrupt and out of business and nobody was buying anything - so now was the time to get the great discounts.   

TL;DR - The great Special Operation  enshittening is finally affecting every aspect of Russian economic life

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22 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

if the price of everything keeps going up, and there are already shortages of some things, it makes sense to take all your money out and buy as many things as humanly possible while they are still available and at a lower price point.  I assume they would focus on food, as having money to buy food - but no food available - is worse than food being available and not having money.  People can borrow money from friends or family, or beg, or trade work for food, or sex for food, or steal food, but there is not a damn thing you can do when there is no food but starve.

 

 

19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

And any money locked away in the bank is at risk of the government fucking with it, including limiting purchases electronically (food rationing, etc.).

Cash/rubles in hand can get you stuff on the black market, from the farmer down the road, etc.

These are both true.

However, probably the largest reason for the banking deficit has more to do with them not having money to deposit. X customer withdraws $100, but if there is no customer Y to deposit money, you create negative balance.

I think this could be a combination of a Depression era bank run combined with with the Consumer Debt recession of 2007. 

I'm okay with that.

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5 minutes ago, Jameslaw121 said:

 

These are both true.

However, probably the largest reason for the banking deficit has more to do with them not having money to deposit. X customer withdraws $100, but if there is no customer Y to deposit money, you create negative balance.

I think this could be a combination of a Depression era bank run combined with with the Consumer Debt recession of 2007. 

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3 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

Watching Constantine’s Wednesday economic report, he reminded me of of a different aspect of people taking all their money out.  When the Russian people know they are about to be fucked by the government, they try to take out as many rubles as possible, and buy euros and American dollars. They know there is a real possibility that rubles will be massively devalued, and you don’t want to be left with rubles in the bank.    One, they might create some rule that just takes your money or limits the amount of money you can withdraw.  Second, the bank might fail, or if not fail, may simply suspend banking until such time as the central bank gives it more money.  Either way the customer has no access to the rubles.    

Constantine was contacted by cold call salespeople who thought he still lived in Russia - both a Lada salesman and a real estate agent in Moscow who were desperate to make a sale, offering up to 50% discount on the Lada, and a condo with payments not due until late 2026, with assistance reducing the interest rate of the mortgage if he chose to borrow.  One admitted that everyone was going bankrupt and out of business and nobody was buying anything - so now was the time to get the great discounts.   

TL;DR - The great Special Operation  enshittening is finally affecting every aspect of Russian economic life

This reply was better than mine.

Can you put the link for the Constatine Videos? I'm sure its somewhere on this thread but I'm pretty lazy.

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3 minutes ago, Jameslaw121 said:

This reply was better than mine.

Can you put the link for the Constatine Videos? I'm sure its somewhere on this thread but I'm pretty lazy.

 

 

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