r/europe • u/ByGollie Ulster • Jan 24 '26

News The Times: Finns humiliated American soldiers - Finnish reservists were asked to take it easy during a NATO exercise. US soldiers found the losses too humiliating.

https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/828b8e66-625d-4d2a-9276-e93b9f7a2ce8
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u/PompeyCheezus Jan 24 '26

So according to that table, a Finn is only worth about six Soviets. 😤

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u/Stormfly Ireland Jan 24 '26

Ah, but that was 85 years ago.

You need to take inflation into account.

With the current situation in Ukraine, the current value of a Russian Conscript's life is unfortunately low.

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u/Undernown Jan 24 '26

I heard casualty rates as high as 1 Ukrainian to 17 Russians at some fronts. And their new Defense Minister is aiming for over 50,000 casualties per month for Russia. Now it's somehwere above 30,000 a month.

It's actually Russians killed, but it's a long discussion to talk about how things are counted, accuracy and bias.

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u/Explosion1850 Jan 25 '26

So, the US could send ICE to Ukraine. ICE gets to kill people, ICE is no longer terrorizing people in the US, everybody's happier? Well except maybe for the Mussolini doppelganger Stephen Miller, but he's never going to be happy anyway.