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MILLION UKRAINIAN REFUGEES HAVE COME OVER THAT BORDER, FLEEING THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF THEIR OWN COUNTRY. IT IS ONLY A FEW DECADES AGO THAT RUSSIAN FORCES WERE RIGHT HERE, IN BUDAPEST. IN 1956, WHEN HUNGARY WAS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE SOVIET UNION THEY TANKS ROLLED INTO BUDAPEST TO PUT DOWN A DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION IN THE CITY. THE CRACKDOWN WAS SUCCESSFUL, AND BRUTAL. SOME 2500 HUNGARIANS, AND 700 SOVIET SOLDIERS WERE KILLED. NEARLY A QUARTER MILLION HUNGARIANS, FLEEING THE COUNTRY. THAT WHOLE THING WAS OVER IN ONE WEEK. HUNGARY’S DEMOCRATIC Endeavours IS WAITING UNTIL THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION, MORE THAN 30 Years Subsequently. BUT, NOT ALL SOVIET MILITARY INTERVENTIONS WERE THAT SHORT, OR THAT SUCCESSFUL. MOST FAMOUSLY, SOVIET TANKS ROLLED INTO AFGHANISTAN IN 1979, AND Objective UP BOGGED DOWN FOR A DECADE. THE WAR WAS A DISASTER FOR AFGHANISTAN, WHERE SOMETHING LIKE 2 MILLION AFGHAN CIVILIANS WERE KILLED, BUT IT WAS A DEBACLE FOR THE SOVIET MILITARY.THEY LOST NEARLY 15,000 SOVIET TROOPS OVER TEN YEARS. Eventually, HAVING TO GIVE UP, AND RETREAT. THE SOVIET UNION, COLLAPSING TWO YEARS LATER, IN PART, BECAUSE OF THE UNPOPULARITY, AND COST, OF THAT Fighting. SO, HERE IS SOMETHING WORTH CONSIDERING. IF THAT, AFGHANISTAN, WAS A MILITARY CATASTROPHE, A MILITARY DEFEAT CONTRIBUTING TO THE FALL OF A GLOBAL SUPERPOWER, 15,000 SOLDIERS KILLED OVER A DECADE, WHAT WOULD WE CALL AN INVASION IN WHICH RUSSIA HAS LOST HALF OF THAT NUMBER, IN JUST THREE WEEKS? THAT IS WHAT AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY HAVE HAPPENED, ACCORDING TO NEW REPORTING BY THE NEW YORK TIMES. MORE THAN 7000 RUSSIAN TROOPS, KILLED IN UKRAINE, SINCE THE INVASION BEGAN. THAT, THEY SAY, AS A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE. NOW, IF THOSE AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES ARE ACCURATE. THEN, OF COURSE, WE HAVE NO WAY TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THEM.THAT WOULD BE A STAGGERING NUMBER OF CASUALTIES FOR RUSSIANS FORCES TO HAVE SUSTAINED IN THREE WEEKS. 7000 IS THE NUMBER OF MARINES KILLED IN 36 Days OF FIGHTING, ON EVIL JIMA. ONE OF THE FIERCEST BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II. 7000, GREATER THAN THE NUMBER OF AMERICAN TROOPS, IN 20 YEARS IN IRAQ, AND AFGHANISTAN, COMBINED. IT IS NOT Really A CASUALTY NUMBERS OF POINT TO A RUSSIAN ARMY IN DISARRAY. TODAY, IT IS ECHOING WHAT AMERICAN DEFENSE OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN SAYING.THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE, LARGELY STALLED ON ALL FRONTS, AS THEY FEND OFF CONSTANT, UKRAINIAN COUNTERATTACKS. FOR RUSSIAN GENERALS, REPORTEDLY, KILLED IN THE FIGHTING. THE GENERAL SAY, TO MAYBE PUSHING CLOSER TO THE FRONT LINES, TO TRY TO BOOST FLAGGING MORALE AMONG THE RUSSIAN TROOPS, MAKING THE MORE VULNERABLE TO ATTACK THEMSELVES. THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS, QUOTE, TO AMERICAN MILITARY OFFICIALS SAY, MANY RUSSIAN GENERAL OFFICIALS ARE TALK ON UNSECURED PHONES, AND RADIOS. IN AT LEAST ONE INSTANCE, “Theyre saying”, UKRAINIANS INTERCEPTED AND GENERALS CALL, GEO LOCATED IT, AND ATTACKED HIS LOCATION, KILLING HIM, AND HIS STAFF. THEN, THERE IS RUSSIA’S LOSS OF COSTLY MILITARY HARDWARE.THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WITH THIS REPORT. UKRAINE HAS BECOME A GRAVEYARD FOR RUSSIAN TANKS, WITH ANALYSTS SAYING, THIS IS LIKELY THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF TANKS DESTROYED IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD SINCE WORLD WAR II. NOW, ALL OF THIS BAD NEWS HAVING REPERCUSSIONS IN MOSCOW. RUSSIAN NEWS Aid OF VOTED THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN HAD TWO OF HIS TOP INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS UNDER HOUSE ARREST. A RUSSIAN SECURITY EXPERT TELLS THE TIMES, THE TWO MEN WERE INTERROGATED FOR PROVIDING POOR INTELLIGENCE, AHEAD OF THE INVASION OF UKRAINE. MEANWHILE, THE RUSSIAN MILITARY IS REPORTING IT SO DESPERATE FOR NEW SOLDIERS, RECRUITERS ARE TARGETING, AND PRESSURING, CENTRAL ASIAN IMMIGRANTS, WORKING IN RUSSIA. BASICALLY, SAYING, IF THEY WANT RUSSIAN CITIZENSHIP, THEY MUST SIGN UP TO FIGHT IN UKRAINE.THAT REPORTING IS FROM THE MOSCOW TIMES. AN INDEPENDENT RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER, AS OF LAST WEEK, IS NOW OPERATING OUT OF AMSTERDAM, BECAUSE OF THE KREMLIN’S MEDIA CRACKDOWN. RUSSIA’S MILITARY TROUBLES WITH A THEME OF A NEW VIDEO MESSAGE TONIGHT, FROM UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY. HE CRANED, UKRAINIAN FORCES HAVE KILLED 13,000 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, AND TAKEN THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS. SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN, HE ADDRESSED THE MOTHERS OF THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, TELLING THEM, UKRAINE NEVER WANTED ALL OF THESE DEAD BODIES, AND PRISONERS. QUOTE, WE DID NOT WANT THIS.
