2024-06-04 14:38:38
The Time article screenshotted contains a factual error. Decimation, in its technical sense, refers to reduction by 10%, not reduction to 10%. For example, a decimation of 100 people would remove 10 and keep 90. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(22-3-56) Author
2024-06-04 15:04:58
NNN. In order for the military to be reduced by 90%, it was necessarily reduced by 10% "on the way." In other words, a reduction of 90% encompasses and includes a reduction of 10%. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(14-1-5) Author
2024-06-04 15:26:43
For those arguing that the Russian army’s strength has not been decimated (a reduction of force by 10%), if you do the math the force in question has actually been decimated 19 times so far. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(10-1-5) Author
2024-06-04 19:34:38
Decimate includes a modern, more colloquial definition of causing great destruction or reduction to. The proposed note is pointlessly--and fallaciously--pedantic. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(23-1-5) Author
2024-06-06 10:38:54
Russia didn’t have 360 thousand ”military personnel” but rather had that number in their ground forces. Unreliable casualty figures combined with replacements from mobilization mean that the active strength of the Russian armed forces has not decreased by 87%. [Link][Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-0-1) Author