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It still blows my mind that this war isn’t seen as a bigger deal than it is. Russian casualties are approaching 1.3 million (350k dead) and Ukraine may be approaching 600k casualties (130k dead). These are demographic changing numbers. 1~% of Russians and Ukrainians have become casualties. As a percentage of military aged men it must be even higher. Casualties is also such a broad term but a not insignificant number beyond the dead must be life altering injuries of missing limbs or similar.

The biggest war since ww2 and, though perhaps it shouldn’t matter but it does, it’s taking place in Western Europe no less. I don’t watch cable news but I do regularly visit the major news networks websites, I follow several news feeds on YouTube and random news always breaks through on instagram. This forum thread however remains the only consistent reminder for me this war is happening.

In 12 months I understand there has been an ~1% change in territory? Diplomacy has stalled. I think I may even have this exact post 12 months ago. The only thing that changes is the number of dead. Given the costs involved victory, as the term is understood, is no longer possible. What is the point of this?

Iran is spoken about in terms of gas’s prices but I feel the discussion of how Ukraine affects food or energy prices has mostly disappeared.

 the broken, on 16 March 2026 - 02:52 PM, said:

Sorry, you're asking why the most secretive country on the planet would keep it secret that their warmongering/criminal leader had been killed?

Is that a real question?

If I remember correctly, Britain was a ranger at Acadia national park before becoming an author. This explains her knowledge of nature and everything that has to do with it.

Your post reminds me that I have every book in the series and that I will have to get to it one day!

Wth, Whisp, that's gotta be like 4-5,000 pages in the last two weeks. This is why we still need bullies to balance out the nerds.