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Originally Posted by Skybird
You are no battle hardened trooper at 16 or 65. Reflexes and stamina goes down with age, so does stress resistence, sense of balance, memory. Health.
Germany had child soldiers 80 years ago. They were not really of help.
The young adult men of preferred age are either already drawn and left again or were killed or crippled, or have fled the country.
Heck, russia's population is four times bigger than that of Ukraine, if not bigger. And no matter what these endless super dooper videos claim, nobody can convince me the Russians suffer four times as many KIAs and MIAs than the Ukrainians. They suffer much higher losses, but not higher on that scale, and not war-decidingly more. Compared to the potentially available force pool, Ukraine suffers more, despoite higher Russian losses.
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They don't need to fight, they just need to bleed.
In Russia's case, this has turned into a war of attrition. As long as they have people to throw into the grinder they can keep pressure on Ukraine.