@Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoRussia has lost over 900,000 soldiers since February 2022www.pravda.com.uaexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1673arrow-down111
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minus-squareOptionallinkfedilinkEnglish23•3 months agoAnyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up? Tap for spoiler ~58,000
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi WandlinkfedilinkEnglish31•3 months agoPlus about 300k “casualties”, which is more apples to apples with the 900k Russians.
minus-square@PugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-23 months agoOnly about 150k Americans seriously wounded in Vietnam.
minus-squareGordon CalhounlinkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoI would imagine Agent Orange and severe PTSD-induced homelessness or suicide should also contribute to that number.
minus-squareTuukka RlinkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoThey don’t count as military losses. This isn’t a statistic about Russian suffering. This a statistic about how many soldiers the Russian military has lost from its ranks. PTSD doesn’t remove a soldier from the ranks.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi WandlinkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoThat’s a fact. Though it’s hard to know what kind of statistic we’re seeing in Russia’s numbers here, by comparison
Anyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up?
Tap for spoiler
~58,000
Plus about 300k “casualties”, which is more apples to apples with the 900k Russians.
Only about 150k Americans seriously wounded in Vietnam.
I would imagine Agent Orange and severe PTSD-induced homelessness or suicide should also contribute to that number.
They don’t count as military losses. This isn’t a statistic about Russian suffering. This a statistic about how many soldiers the Russian military has lost from its ranks. PTSD doesn’t remove a soldier from the ranks.
That’s a fact. Though it’s hard to know what kind of statistic we’re seeing in Russia’s numbers here, by comparison
Yes, yes I do.