Ukraine: Celebrating the wreckage
When Robbie Burns turned up a mouse’s nest with his plough and subsequently recorded the incident in his poem To a Mouse, he offered his readers a profound truth: “The best-laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley, and leave us naught but grief and pain for promised joy.”
Back near the beginning of November, BBC News reported American estimates of around 200,000 military casualties on all sides in Ukraine. A further 40,000 or so civilians have been killed, directly or as “collateral damage.” How do we deal with numbers like that? If we might imagine Putin as a “wannabe” Stalin, he may be reflecting on that former dictator’s bleak comment that, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” In other words, those lives were essentially meaningless in the “grand scheme of things.”
Despite unexpected losses, Putin seems to have doubled down on Russia’s invasion efforts. His military’s objectives to cripple Ukraine — energy infrastructure in particular, but also transportation assets, residential buildings, industrial plants, utilities, and so on — have racked up an estimated repair/replacement bill of $127 billion and counting.
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