@[email protected] to World [email protected]English • 14 days agoRussia has lost over 900,000 soldiers since February 2022www.pravda.com.uaexternal-linkmessage-square149fedilinkarrow-up1595arrow-down110
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minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi WandlinkfedilinkEnglish34•14 days agoPlus about 300k “casualties”, which is more apples to apples with the 900k Russians.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-214 days agoOnly about 150k Americans seriously wounded in Vietnam.
minus-squareGordon CalhounlinkfedilinkEnglish10•14 days agoI would imagine Agent Orange and severe PTSD-induced homelessness or suicide should also contribute to that number.
minus-squareTuukka RlinkfedilinkEnglish2•12 days 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 WandlinkfedilinkEnglish6•14 days agoThat’s a fact. Though it’s hard to know what kind of statistic we’re seeing in Russia’s numbers here, by comparison
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