Ukraine
A new thing at google, an AI answered my query. My query was, the percentage of young men france lost in wwi
"France lost 25% of its 18–30 year-old male population during World War I. In total, 1.3 million French men died in combat during the war, which is about 16% of the male conscript population. This means that 14 out of every 100 working-age men died, and 4% of France's total population died."
I was expecting that answer, that was why i was asking for it. However it used to 18% of it's young population, not 25% like the new AI says.
Oh well, it's a lot either way, and it's many multiples of magnitude larger than what we're counting in Russia today amoung the young.
I doubt that Russia is up to one percent yet of overall. One percent would be 1.4 million people in the overpopulated Russia today. They have a Gross of millions now, 144 million.
In times of old villagers would just be started to get upset when a war had a death toll which went much over 15% of the young men. One percent of overall population isn't going to wake them. Nor when converted to their 18 to 44 population which would increase that to about 3%. It's a long way below 15%.
So in my mind this will not become much of a factor in Russia today. Not after all the horrid yesterday's they have had.
In about maybe 2-3 days, Russia will officially cross the 500,000+ KIA, MIA and wounded mark for a war that isn't as nearly justified or as explainable for millions of military and civilian casualties like foreign military invasions like Napoleonic Wars or Operation Barbarossa. The RuaF are estimated at losing over 1,000+ men per day, and by the time we reach the end of 2024, Sam, Russian forces in Ukraine stand a decent chance of reaching close to 800,000 men, by this time next year, and this war will continue simmering and burning for another 2-3 years no matter whose in the White House next January. They also badly lost the Russia Japanese War in 1904-05 and along with a myriad of other economic/political factors, a near-successful revolution occured in 1905, Sam and it wasnt completely subdued until 1907 and Czar Nicholas II's reputation never fully recovered afterwards domestically. During the July 1914 European "war crisis" after Franz Ferdinand's assassination and Austro-Hungarian demands, ultimatum was being issued to Serbia so they'd deliberately reject, Rasputin was ironically, one of Nicholas II's few advisers who told him intervening in any large, general European continental conflict would lead to military defeat, economic collapse and internal revolution, which all three occurred in successive order over the next 3 years.
2-3 million Russian soldiers killed and wounded, WTF, maybe more, a lot more by then and no guarantee of even a negotiated, Chinese-deliberated cease-fire where maybe Russia keeps some of the Ukrainian territory and cities they invaded, occupied, stole, raped and murdered to achieved like Mariupol, Kherson in their "special military operation". I sincerely hope we make them and their overall economy bleed to the point of near-exhaustion, permanent decline and destruction.
I think, right now, many Western observers, commentators, analysts, and diplomats would be morally and ethically understood and forgiven to view and perceive some aspects of the Russian populace, intelligentsia, political philosophy and over-arching mindsets as medieval, somewhat barbaric, unquestionably authoritian/if not borderline totalitarian, a snearing, unequivocal contempt for abinding and following international laws and regulations that pales any comparisons to accusations of what we did in Afghanistan and still, their are some " useful idiots" in West like Roger Waters and in the past, Noam Chomsky defending or equivocating Putin's actions here in terms of ambivalence and Waters has the forking balls to label Joe Biden "war criminal".
The French also pre-WWI and during it, sort of had very serious, understandable reasons for entering another war with Kaiser Reich Germany, and that was to avenge their loss or defeats in 1870-71 and territorial losses of Alsace and Lorraine (a war indemnity Bismarck opposed in the Treaty of Frankfurt because he knew it would inflame generations of French revanchists but was overruled). IMHO, with the hindsight of two world wars and a Cold War, I think the French attitude and philosophy was very blinkered and irrational as it also lead to the Dreyfus Affair, Sam and that was essentially modern France's most bitterest, longest and sustained internal judicial, political crisis since 1789. To say the legacy of the Dreyfuss Affair left very deep, recurrent bitter divisions in French society and politics for decades to come would be a huge understatement. It was sort of their "McCarthyism" era that lasted 3-4x longer until 1906.