How Many Casualties Is Too Many?

There seems to be something like an urban versus red state pattern going on in russia with support for the war. And that's alarming. The reason the soviet union fell was not afghanistan, but because the urban elit lost its taste for that state. It just didn't want to be part of it any more. There have been some striking signs of that from the urban russion let like massive defections fromthe theseknow, they'reo they're not the people who make the ball bearings for the weapons or whatever.