Sikorski: Before Russian invasion, I warned group of Ukrainian MPs in Munich: “War starts next week.” I told them that if Ukraine inflicted around 100,000 losses on Russia, it would surrender. Russia suffered much greater losses.
Today’s Russia is much more repressive than late Soviet Union. In the 1980s, the USSR, with larger population, lost tens of thousands in Afghanistan, and soldiers’ mothers’ committees were tolerated. In Putin’s Russia, such dissent is crushed. That’s why the war continues.