Putin Is Throwing Human Waves at Ukraine, But Can’t Do It Forever

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-25 13:15:53 | Updated at 2024-11-26 17:24:55 1 day ago

Putin Is Throwing Human Waves at Ukraine, But Can’t Do It Forever
Foreign Policy ^ | November 25, 2024 | Alexey Kovalev

Posted on 11/25/2024 4:46:13 AM PST by Timber Rattler

One of the bleakest places on Earth today is the central processing facility for the remains of dead soldiers in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the logistical hub of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Designed to process hundreds of corpses at a time, this sprawling mega-morgue has been hopelessly overwhelmed for many months. Footage from the inside, posted by witnesses on social media, shows hundreds of bodies in various stages of decomposition and limbs strewn across the corridor floors. In wooden boxes lining the walls from floor to ceiling, row after row after row, are the lucky ones: those whose bodies were recovered from the battlefield, identified, sealed in zinc-lined caskets, and prepared for dispatch to their grieving relatives in the farthest corners of Russia. Many more corpses have been abandoned to rot in Ukrainian fields because evacuating them is impractical under the constant barrage of the defenders’ artillery and drones.

To be sure: These soldiers’ deaths are the necessary consequence of Ukraine’s right to defend itself against an illegal war of conquest. What’s more, many of these ordinary Russian soldiers likely committed despicable brutality and war crimes against Ukrainians, including defenseless civilians. But the horrific rate at which Russians are getting killed at the front—much higher than corresponding Ukrainian losses, although exact numbers are kept secret by both sides—points to two disturbing truths about the Russian way of waging war. First, a cruel disregard for human life extends to Russia’s own forces, which the Kremlin systematically deploys in so-called meat grinder and human-wave attacks. Second, mass death among Russian troops has become part of an increasingly explicit eugenics policy, by which the Kremlin seeks to rid Russia of undesirable elements and reconfigure the Russian population.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: kremlin; putin; russia; ukraine

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Survival of the fittest Russians apparently...

To: Timber Rattler

Russia can do the Meat Grinder thing longer than any other nation on Earth. Have you not studied history?

2 posted on 11/25/2024 4:47:57 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

To: Timber Rattler

Uh oh! Russian meat waves are back! If only the West could find some evidence for it.

To: Timber Rattler

Tell us about Putin’s cancers and the soaring price of RuZZian eggs.

I need Zeep Doom Porn to start the day.

To: Tom Tetroxide

Snake is one of the founding Zedophiles and will take a lot of convincing. He will be commenting away on Little Z-Man when Vance is president.

To: Timber Rattler

Complaining about human wave attacks has long been a trademark of losing generals (and pundits).

To: ClearCase_guy

I think the Chinese communists could give them a run for their money as far as stacking their own bodies… Especially during the Korean War, throwing four and five waves of bodies at American positions just to make us expend our ammo.

But yes, you’re correct in their disregard for their own people.

7 posted on 11/25/2024 4:53:48 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)

To: Timber Rattler

8 posted on 11/25/2024 4:53:55 AM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)

To: Timber Rattler

9 posted on 11/25/2024 4:54:30 AM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)

To: ClearCase_guy

This is what Russian population pyramid looks now:

This is what it looked like in 1939.

The world of difference!

10 posted on 11/25/2024 4:58:44 AM PST by Krosan

To: Timber Rattler

Waitaminut, I thought you idiots said Russia was done for?

11 posted on 11/25/2024 4:59:45 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)

To: ANKE69

I’m starting to think FR is on the Zelinski kickback list for allowing so much of this crap to be posted.

12 posted on 11/25/2024 5:00:20 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)

To: Timber Rattler

The Neocons’ gambit to break Russia at the cost of the Ukes thus paving the way for their friends at Blackrock to pocket the mineral wealth, farmland, etc has failed. They’ve spent huge amounts of money, they’ve wrecked the economies of Western European countries and they’ve solidified a Russa-China-Iran-North Korea alliance against the West.

The West is left in a massively weaker position than it was in before they started all this with the meddling in Ukraine, the color revolutions, etc

13 posted on 11/25/2024 5:07:30 AM PST by FLT-bird

To: wildcard_redneck

😂😂😅😅

The zeeperville village idiot has reported that Putin has risen from the dead once again. Hallelujah !!!

14 posted on 11/25/2024 5:11:01 AM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)

To: Timber Rattler

I guess the Russians don’t have an air power doctrine.

Oh well….

15 posted on 11/25/2024 5:11:30 AM PST by Vermont Lt

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