Love how they're making their own court because the already existing ones can't selectively punish Russia while ignoring western war crimes. Something also tells me that the "International" cooperation in that will just be white countries and wannabe white countries.

And if they seize the 300bn then that'll lead to the end of euro as a reserve currency around the world.

Just a side comment on this: Based on the number of Ukrainians in the field at any one time (around 600k, from memory), this is pretty bad (for Ukraine).

Casualties traditionally mean "people rendered combat ineffective", not just killed, and with modern medicine, body armour etc. you'd expect a lot more wounded/maimed than killed.

PoW numbers seem pretty low this war, I think. We're pretty used to asymmetric warfare where civilians behind lines are sort of like PoWs (many combatants can just drop their guns and wear jeans). There haven't really been any major encirclements despite both sides trying to set them up, which is where a lot of PoWs come from, barring Azovstal style last stands.

I assume Ukraine still has a lot of people in the "combat aged males" category, but the first choices (16-30) are probably suffering a lot.

EDIT: This isn't really a tactical or operational concern, but rather concerning for Ukraine's already bleak prospects post-war. Strategically, the casualty rate is concerning, but Ukraine isn't riding off their own industry for the most part, so this probably won't shorten the war.

That’s the cope number too, it’s likely well over 200,000 now. Russian deaths are likely 25,000 or so, with another 30,000 DPR/LPR/mercenary deaths

Where was the edited version posted to though? Like after the initial recording, it was then edited to cover up that part. ...but then posted where? Cant find the original source of edited posting.

Looks like posted by the EU commissioner herself to twitter. So then, where was the original unedited recording originally posted? By some other EU source or televised somewhere, or?

When Ursula von der Leyen (lead image) was nominated in 2019 to be Germany’s candidate to lead the European Commission, German politicians from her own party privately described her as too stupid and potentially too corrupt to be risked inside Germany during the political succession race to succeed Angela Merkel as Chancellor. German military sources say von der Leyen was the stupidest defence minister in German military memory.

Since the war began in February, von der Leyen did not say a true word until November 30, when she announced that Ukrainian military deaths had reached more than 100,000, and civilian fatalities more than 20,000. Within hours these numbers were removed from the published record of her speech. Von der Leyen’s admission implied the war toll of Ukrainian wounded is more than 300,000, and that the sum of military and civilian casualties has already reached half a million. Von der Leyen was confirming Russian estimates and contradicting the Kiev regime’s propaganda.

from https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/12/hot-air-versus-hot-cash-the-europeans-prefer-russian-lng-to-us-lng.html