Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoRussia has lost over 900,000 soldiers since February 2022www.pravda.com.uaexternal-linkmessage-square161fedilinkarrow-up1789arrow-down113
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minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoOnly about 150k Americans seriously wounded in Vietnam.
minus-squareGordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·2 days agoI would imagine Agent Orange and severe PTSD-induced homelessness or suicide should also contribute to that number.
minus-squareTuukka R@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoThey don’t count as military losses. This isn’t a statistic about Russian suffering. This a statistic about how many soldiers the Russian military has lost from its ranks. PTSD doesn’t remove a soldier from the ranks.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoThat’s a fact. Though it’s hard to know what kind of statistic we’re seeing in Russia’s numbers here, by comparison
Only about 150k Americans seriously wounded in Vietnam.
I would imagine Agent Orange and severe PTSD-induced homelessness or suicide should also contribute to that number.
They don’t count as military losses. This isn’t a statistic about Russian suffering. This a statistic about how many soldiers the Russian military has lost from its ranks. PTSD doesn’t remove a soldier from the ranks.
That’s a fact. Though it’s hard to know what kind of statistic we’re seeing in Russia’s numbers here, by comparison