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Let's talk about a Biden fact check and Ukraine....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about a Biden fact check and Ukraine....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

0:06.2

something Biden said and do a little requested fact check and then we will fact check some of the fact checks on it because

0:17.8

a word was used and I guess in common usage it doesn't mean what the word actually means.

0:28.6

So we will go through and we will fact check it using both definitions and just kind of go through the

0:37.0

information what he said and I think this might be something that's important for people to remember.

0:44.4

Okay, what did he say?

0:46.7

President Biden said, by the way, I don't know why you skip over all that's happened

0:52.4

in the meantime.

0:53.7

The Russian military has been decimated.

0:56.4

You don't write about that.

0:58.1

It's been freaking decimated.

1:00.2

His words.

1:01.2

Okay, and that's the question, decimation. Have the Russians been decimated?

1:11.9

Okay, that word actually means to reduce by one-tenth. That's what that word

1:18.6

means. So yes, that has occurred. The word comes from a Roman punishment for military units that did something like really bad like desertion mutiny something like that and one out of

1:36.5

ten of them would be permanently removed from the field and the nine, they would have to do it. That's what the term

1:48.2

means. However, while looking into this, I have discovered that apparently in common usage, decimate means

1:58.8

reduce by 90%, like literally the exact opposite of what anyway.

2:04.0

And we can go ahead and apply that as well.

2:11.0

When Russia invaded they had a little bit more than 350,000

2:19.0

troops. I want to say it was like 354,000 call it 360. That's what they had when they went in.

2:28.0

By the end of last year, which was The number of lost and wounded on the Russian side was

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