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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The post 9/11 wars resulted in the deaths of nearly 1 million people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Oh so if you just don't count civilians your original statement seems true. I'm sure the million dead are consoled by that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nearly half of those are civilians... war sucks no matter how we look at it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago