Dan Rice, President of the American University Kyiv.

Dec 8, 2024

UKRAINE HAS LOST OVER 43,000 SOLDIERS

Ukraines losses are massive. 43,000 KIA and 370,000 WIA, plus 10 million Ukrainian refugees or IDPs. And hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed, raped, and children stolen.
Just to put these losses in perspective for Americans.

The U.S. lost 58,220 KIA in Vietnam, 4,431 in Iraq and 2,459 in Afghanistan.

But the U.S. population is 10x the Ukrainian population. So per capita the Ukrainian losses are enormous. Imagine if the US lost 582,200 KIA in Vietnam? Every life matters. And 58,220 was a terrible and costly war. But imagine if we lost 582,200 men and women?

That is the pain felt by every Ukrainian that is difficult to convey to my American friends.
People need to think about that when they think of the sacrifices made by Ukrainians.

This is why the war is felt by every Ukrainian. By every person in every village.

This huge sacrifice demands US support to negotiate back to 1991 borders. The illegal invaders should not be rewarded with land, or Ukrainian oppressed people. This is not a game theory MENSA test. This is not a negotiation class. Prognosticators in DC shouldn’t be debating how to “split the baby”.
Russia, a member of the UN Security Council, illegally invaded its neighbor in 2014 and again in 2022. Stop debating the Russian propaganda talking points about Nazis, Russian language, history of region.

Putin knew the best republic in the former, disbanded, terrorist organization called the Soviet Union- was Ukraine. He wanted it so he tried to take it.

President Trump can end this. All he has to do is say on Day 1: Putin leave Ukraine immediately or we will destroy you economically while Ukraine destroys your army militarily. And we will increase weapons and arms massively. Immediately.
Trump has the strongest negotiating tool: Time.
Putin can’t take four more years of sanctions and Trump can implement far greater economic pressure.

President Trump: be the hero not the zero. LEAD!

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Comment from ;

Korkut Ozgen

President Zelensky said 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 370,000 wounded

It is probably much higher but at least for the sake of those 43,000 fallen heroes, dont let any single Russian slip away from the Justice

Слава Україні!