You know, Mr. Litwin, a few nights camping above the Arctic Circle in below zero weather are a better deterrent than war. Also, in spite of what people have put into fear stories about Russia, it is a country that adopted an Orthodox Christian system of behaviors. It's easy to hold facts away from a country on the opposite side of the world, and it's easy for leaders to suppress information that might hold an enemy in a decency silence.
I'm guessing that the good people in Russia and China outnumber the bad. I have no idea what it's like in Russia, but we did hear that the Russian parents of the Russian soldiers who invaded the Ukraine were horrified at the statistics of their countrymen's death, and many a parent lost a son or daughter in the fiercest of deadly warmongering.
In August, an American estimate of the losses to Russia and Ukraine are as follows:
The U.S. believes nearly 500,000 Ukrainian and Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed during the expansive conflict that has raged in Ukraine since February of last year, according to a New York Times report citing unnamed officials.
The officials cautioned that casualty figures remained difficult to estimate because Moscow is believed to routinely undercount its war dead and injured, and Kyiv does not disclose official figures, the newspaper said.
Russia's military casualties are approaching 300,000, including as many as 120,000 deaths and 170,000 to 180,000 injuries, the newspaper reported. Ukrainian deaths were close to 70,000, with 100,000 to 120,000 wounded, it added.
www.the-express.com
for Alaska ?
