• spiderkle@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    It’s a shame humanity hasn’t learned more from the last century, this one wasn’t supposed to be a sequel.

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      10 months ago

      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.