Ukraine War: 1.5 Million Russian Dead

On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the US, we also note another sad milestone of Russian casualty counts in their Ukraine invasion. A Highly Regrettable Anniversary and A Newly Regrettable Milestone Today is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by al Qaeda that resulted in mass deaths in New York & elsewhere, inaugurating a new Forever War in which the US participates with regrettable relish. On an eerily similar note, today I noticed another milestone in Russian casualties in Ukraine. Now, this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads (CLBTNR) has, as you might expect from the nickname, only a very few readers. The few, and the hapless. We few, we hopeless few, we band of botherers – to misquote Henry V – have been having some rather… testy opinions on the subject of the Russian invasion of Ukraine for some time now. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] We’ve been quantitatively modeling the whole mess, just to have…