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Ukraine has 200k soldiers. But most of them are grunts with rifles. Russia has all kinds of equipment and combined arms. You can't really compare the two.

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certainly no comparison in a conventional war. Ukraine could be as costly to Putin as Afghanistan was to the US.

Ukraine could also be as costly to Putin as Afghanistan was to the USSR.

Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires for a reason.

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