Russia's combat losses in the data of Rosstat
rosstat-leaks.com
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This data claims U07 is the second high cause for 2024-2026. That seems very high unless the code is being misused / applied for something else, or the data is wrong.
For comparison:
* US has no infectious disease causes of death in the top 10 for 2024. * India's most recent data release is 2022-2024, and cardiovascular disease tops the list, with neoplasms (cancer), non-infectious respiratory disease, and digestive disease ahead of respiratory infection (all combined). It isn't presented by ICD-10 code exactly.
So that U07 as late as 2024 is unusual unless there's some other huge emergency the code is being used for that has escaped much attention, or it is also being used for war deaths perhaps.
The range is 2020-2026 with peak during 2021-2022 and regions with high air pollution being overrepresented. It's a COVID-related long tail.
Afaik, India has very low BMI on average. Why the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases? Could also be that "tops the list" still means relatively small amount of cases relative to the... let's say developed world.
So they've prepared and have been trying hard to hide this catastrophic failure from which there probably won't be a recovery.
It wouldn't be shocking if different codes would be used to report casualties of war.
The disconcerting to see glimpses of the inner workings of a system where corruption is an institution.
Putin’s Nazis terrorising the region probably exacerbated pre existing conditions.
I am not Russian, nor Ukrainian, nor German.
The greatest enemy of the common nobody Russian is unfortunately their own brothers and rulers. Today we are seeing a genocide of many non Russian peoples on the fronts against Ukraine. It may not be a called a final solution but it will be remembered as this in the future when people learn more of what really feed the Russian monster against Ukraine and for the past few hundred years of imperial expansion.
If you want to talk about revisionist history don't make it one sided.
But, to put it on a more relevant Russian scale: that's less losses than what the Soviet Union suffered in Stalingrad alone and barely more than those sustained in the battle of Rzhev.
In any case, Russians were going through a major demographic crisis, and this might be a catastrophic event that with current low birth rates may radically change the face of Russia in the very next decades.
Russia and Western Europe also don't really have any historical grievances / grudges that would serve as a Casus Belli for a hot war, nor has NATO ever shown even a shred of aggression towards any other states, and so some imagined potential NATO aggression towards Russia is a pretty poor excuse for a war in the first place, but that's not even the main blunder Russia is making here, as by fighting an imagined enemy they are making themselves much weaker in the face of their real enemy China.
China, on the other hand has the whole historical Manchuria grievance with Russia, has their own looming ecological and demographic collapses that will put pressure on the CCP to distract the Chinese people from their internal failings, and has shown an increasing appetite expansionism / imperialism and for getting into proxy or even direct conflicts with their neighbors, and so far more than the "West" / NATO, China is Russia's true geo-strategic adversary.
By sending a generation of their young men into meat grinder of the Ukrainian front, and by simultaneously weakening their own military-industrial base whilst strengthening China's, Russia is all but ensuring they'll be in a far weaker and easier to pressure / defeat state whenever China inevitably turns their expansionism and aggression towards Russia.
Putin is basically trading Russia's future for his own legacy, and I genuinely don't understand how more Russian's don't see this.
Have you read their history? Two world wars, the cold war, the dissolution of the USSR and the attempt at rapprochement by Gorbachev and Yeltsin (the reunification of Germany, allowing it join NATO, offering to join NATO themselves etc.) and now the Russian grievance of what they consider a betrayal of the promise to not expand NATO eastward ...
[0] https://www.populationpyramid.net/russian-federation/2026/
But I have to ask: who is going to be left holding the bag for this shitty war? I suspect that neither Putin nor his inner circle will want any of the blame to stick to them, even though they are the ones who masterminded it. The military must be a hotbed of chaos and internal tension right now; they have borne the brunt of the casualties, and, in all likelihood, they are about to face a major purge. I imagine Putin is relying on a handful of highly loyal generals—like Gerasimov—while the rest probably can’t stand him.
Will the regime survive if this ends in some sort of thinly veiled, backroom deal that fails to lift the sanctions imposed by Europe—by far its former primary trading partner?
Just look at its borders most are frozen and it is effectively land locked with access via the Baltic and Black sea completed locked in.
It may be large, the numbers may appear also big, but its actually a terrible place to live compared to most other places. All that cold and conditions are nothing more than a prison, for both enjoyment and mental wellbeing and a large reason why so many there are alcholics on a scale you probably have no concept about.
A large reason why its so big is because most of it is so harsh nobody else wanted to conquor it. Theres a reason why China with its thousands of years of imperial history never took Siberia or even went that much more north than it is today.