@kathirz
OK how about we do this with Ukraine and western propaganda instead because you feel that Russians are BSing that only 2% of their forces just in the operation have been killed. Guess what kind of news came this morning for me.
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What made this even worse is that she went to re-edit her video to scratch out the 100k ukrainians killed in action than twitter, 4chan and other social media sites made a big deal out of it. Now Oryx claims like 80k+ russian troops dying and Putins mobilization bill can go up to 1 million reservists over the existing 318k and he already signed a bill to add 150k active duty troops over the existing 1 million giving it a 1,150,000 for active duty, Zelensky states in May we have 700k troops.. Even if we ignore Russian sources and just use western/Ukrainian sources Ukraine is still statistically fucked to lose this war. Unless you want to argue that we shouldn't trust Ukrainian and western sources?
As I've said, I don't believe on what von der Leyen or Shoigu say. They use the numbers for their interests in the middle of the war. In this case for magnifying the drama ( its a disgrace, of course ) with the goal of prepare EU population for months of war and raise supplies to UKR, after declaring Russia as a terrorist state.
IMO, she might be "rounding" a big number starting to count from 2014. But remember, the expected casualities on aggresor side would be more if we look to previous experiences.