…about the time the real figure reaches 80k.

Case in point, that 3900 tanks. Let’s take it at face value. (All right, all right! I’ll stop laughing after I finish this comment.) That means 11-12000 Russian casualties, max. Tanks take about 10% of losses and infantry almost all of the remaining 90%. So that would mean – again, max – 100-120k Russian casualties. This would mean the Ukrainians were only lying by a factor of 2, which is, of course, better than their probable lie factor of three.

But then, why should we take at face value the creators of the Ghost of the Videogame of Kiev, the 13 (or 82) Zombies of Snake Island (dead and then undead, you see) the Ffraudulent Ffallen Ffemale Ffighter pilot, and Comrade Ogilvy, the trench-fighint puddy tat?