Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "'Staggering' number of Russian troops killed | General Petraeus" video.

If Russia were a democratic country it would be an EU and NATO partner. Boris Yeltsin has a lot to answer for.
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They regard huge losses as a badge of honour. They are proud that they lost so many troops in ww2. Nobody there questions the incompetence of the military leadership that oversaw and oversee the military disasters
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The grandparents are killing their grandchildren, a Russian said to me once.
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France had 2 million casualties in ww1 with a similar population. Horrific as it is, this war could continue for 10 years with this rate of loss.
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@bustabloodvessel5327 France had a population of 40 million in 1914, and didn't recruit people over 30 years old. I don't see a big difference in capacity there. It also lost some millions due to German occupation during that period, so ukraine can sustain this rate of loss for many years. Manpower will not be the issue which determines the outcome of this war. Logistics will.
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@HectorGonzalez-fz6ws under stalin 30 million soviet citizens died, and he didn't. Terrifying is it not.
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@susannahvarietyvideos5660 your cynicism is a product of your own life experience I guess. Democracy has made life in the west the best that human beings have ever known. Russians would be very happy to have all that, but they don't know how to get there. They think it can be achieved by military conquest, which isn't the way. Ask Finland. As regards NATO, Russia could have joined if it had wanted that, but it wants to expand its territories, which conflicts with the interests of the countries around it. If you examine European history, you will notice that Russia has an unfortunate habit of attacking, annexing and partitioning its neighbours. As it is doing now.
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