Well if two Million people returned to help support the war effort, two MILLION went into Poland to avoid it. My sister in Law comes from a polish town 20 kilometers from the Belorussian border, there town is heaving with Ukranians of all shapes, sizes. genders and ages.
Around SIX million left, all destinations, actually. Not exclusively women, children, elderly, or otherwise not "prime combatant material", no.
A country of 44 million, even with an above the mark 'patriotism', is still a long way from "perfect'.... but still.
Those who came BACK (some just
before the latest iteration of the 8-plus-year long war) have. and will, make a positive difference to the point where Mad-Vlad's "boots on the ground" were actually outnumbered in head-count AND in quality of training/competence, command & organizational skills .. and early-on.
Add the classical ground-warfare advantage of 3:1 in favour of defenders on their home, familiar, turf, with shorter lines of logistics, a VERY supportive population, and eight YEARS of practice?
I make it a 6:1 advantage, "as has been demonstrated"
What AFU has
done with that edge + 'donated' weapons, logistics support, and FUNDING ...plus a very skillful "mobile defence".... is tilt the balance of casualties to RF personnel, materiel, and morale to the advantage of Ukraine.
Bigtime!
Presuming 'the usual' ratio of wounded to KIA applies?
RF forces were down by day 82 @ around 27,000 dead, PLUS around EIGHTY thousand wounded or otherwise
hors de combat.
As said, Mad-Vlad set out to demonstrate the Russian Federation had the second most powerful Military on the planet.
All he has proven, so far, is to have the second most powerful military ... in Ukraine.
Annnnd .... 'historically..' there IS NO "second place winner" ..... in a gunfight, is there?
QED
