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minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year 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-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoThe post 9/11 wars resulted in the deaths of nearly 1 million people
minus-squareours@lemmy.filmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoNearly half of those are civilians… war sucks no matter how we look at it.
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.