From Grok:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky provided an official update in early February 2025, stating that 45,100 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022.

The number of dead Ukrainians is now comparable to the number of Americans killed in Vietnam, in a country of about 40 million people (many of them children and elderly). An entire generation of Ukrainian men has already been decimated.

Meanwhile, many of the people I know on the Left look at me with glazed over eyes when I talk about the need for PEACE. They no longer appreciate the need for peace. They used to understand this before the Democratic party inverted its positions on many important values (including censorship). Nor do they want to hear anything about the history of the corrupt involvement of the U.S. in Ukraine since at least 2014. They used to understand that our north star should be peace.

Trump's bold move today, including his tough talk with President Zelenskyy (see video below), will make no sense to many Democrats, but I don't blame many of them. They have been subjected to systematic censorship for years, much of it from the legacy media that they over-trust and much of it financed by the U.S. government (here are hundreds of examples). Neocons have infested our government for years--most recently Biden's cabinet (e.g. Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken, architects of the Iraq war).

I hope that someday soon Democrats can once again figure out that murder, mayhem and destruction of cities on a mass scale is actually a bad thing and that such carnage should be avoided at all costs. We are not playing the game of Risk. We are talking about real human lives.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1895535520836681851