• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    9 months ago

    What are the casualty counts in the Ru/Nato war? I thought we were well in to the hundreds of thousands dead an injure at this point.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      well if you listen to Ukraine they've killed the entire Russian population twice over and only a few dozen of their boys got killed in the process

    • CarbonScored [any]
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      9 months ago

      To be fair (and balanced), for casualties as a whole, 10x is an accurate figure if you take western news sources at face value.

      In the Russo-Ukrainian war, the amount of disinformation makes this staggeringly hard to know; Adding up the estimates gives ranges somewhere between 150,000 and 1,000,000 deaths. It's important context to note, though, that these deaths are overwhelmingly military.

      In terms of just civilian casualties, Palestinian casualties are 2-3x higher, in less than a quarter of the time, with less then a tenth the population.

      Civilian casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian war are very roughly estimated at 30k-50k, out of 37m over two years. Civilian casualties in Palestine are at a minimum of 110k out of 2,300k in 5 months. Even if the IDF's own numbers are to be believed, that means >90% of casualties are non-militant civilians.

      • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        Civilian casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian war

        Casualties as in killed by the war? Because the numbers I've seen are ~10 thousand, which is comparable to the first month of the war in Iraq