• MrMakabar@slrpnk.netOP
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      7 days ago

      Which includes WW2, when the US had about the same population as Russia has today. This is honestly insane.

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        6 days ago

        WW2, Korea, Vietnam, both Iraq Wars, and Afghanistan - plus a few smaller conflicts

        Unfortunately, Russia’s metric for horrific losses is the USSR in WWII, so they’ve got millions of bodies to go before it’s time for second thoughts.

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          6 days ago

          Russian military deaths in WWI were about a third of what they had in WWII. It is hard to be specific, as it ended up in a revolution with the Soviet Union being created. The Soviet Afghan war, which was part of what ended the Soviet Union had significantly lower causalities then that.