Fish Tank Media

I remain convinced the Russians are, on net, stronger and better positioned for future 21st century military operations than they ever have been in the post-Cold War era. They possess the most potent, abundant, and battle-proven missilry, drones, and other precision munitions on the planet. The Russians are state-of-the-art, and their production capability far exceeds the collective west. The reality in Ukraine is that the Russians have systematically ground down 2+ million Ukrainian men and have progressively defeated the entire spectrum of front-line western arsenals. And, contrary to prevailing myths, I continue to strongly maintain that this war will attest in retrospect the most disproportionate casualty ratio of any major war in modern times. I do not understand how so many people continue to believe the demonstrable fiction of massive Russian casualties. Can you not see what they have been doing all this time? The only time the Russians were ever profligate in their use of infantry was in Bakhmut, where Gerasimov was killing two birds with one stone. Otherwise, the Russians repeatedly herd or lure the hapless Ukrainians into discrete kill zones and then methodically eradicate them by the dozens with a few well-placed FAB-500s — or any other number of remarkably precise and potent killing machines. And they do it day after day after day. And they are content to keep doing it until total collapse inevitably ensues. Then they will march effectively unopposed to the Danube, Transnistria, and whatever strategic depth they conclude is necessary to seize here in this dangerous end-of-empire epoch. It is my long-considered and long-defended position that the purported evidence for massive Russian casualties is fallacious propaganda, including and perhaps especially the BBC/Mediazona legerdemain. At this point in late 2026, I seriously believe the casualty ratio is in the neighborhood of 15:1, and possibly even higher. I know of no other people — not even the most devout Jihadis — that will so stoically resign themselves to their fate, and yet struggle for their lives with the sword to the bitter end. Large swaths of the Ukrainian gene pool have been wiped out, and much has been scattered throughout Europe. The Ukraine will, in course of time, once again be assimilated by pieces into its ancestral homelands. Meanwhile, the US/NATO has been effectively disarmed. And Iran has emerged as the dominant power in West Asia. It is a truly shocking turn of events that has transpired over the last half-decade.