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minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agoWar continues but the scale really is miniscule compared to the 1900s. 26,000 American soldiers died in 36 days of fighting on Iwo Jima. 1900 Americans were killed in 20 years in Afghanistan. I don’t minimize any deaths here, but the direction the numbers are going in gives me hope for the future, not despair.
minus-squareRockyrikoko@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoThe post 9/11 wars resulted in the deaths of nearly 1 million people
minus-squareours@lemmy.filmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoNearly half of those are civilians… war sucks no matter how we look at it.
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoYes civilian deaths were higher. But military deaths are able to be counted more reliably so they are easier to compare. Estimates are that 38 million civilians died in WW2, so there you go. That number is way higher too.
War continues but the scale really is miniscule compared to the 1900s.
26,000 American soldiers died in 36 days of fighting on Iwo Jima.
1900 Americans were killed in 20 years in Afghanistan.
I don’t minimize any deaths here, but the direction the numbers are going in gives me hope for the future, not despair.
The post 9/11 wars resulted in the deaths of nearly 1 million people
Nearly half of those are civilians… war sucks no matter how we look at it.
Yes civilian deaths were higher. But military deaths are able to be counted more reliably so they are easier to compare.
Estimates are that 38 million civilians died in WW2, so there you go. That number is way higher too.