@[email protected] to World [email protected]English • 1 year agoRussia says US support for Ukraine will end as ‘humiliating fiasco’ like ‘Vietnam and Afghanistan’thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square154fedilinkarrow-up1361
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minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish17•edit-21 year agoSeems a little high. Russian casualties are probably closer to 350k according to Western estimates. I wonder how many died though (edit: Ukraine claims 180k but their casualty estimates are reportedly high, so probably less than 180k dead)
minus-squareCaptain AggravatedlinkfedilinkEnglish15•1 year agoBy contrast, the United States lost fewer than 2,500 service members in the entire 20 years we were in Afghanistan.
Seems a little high. Russian casualties are probably closer to 350k according to Western estimates.
I wonder how many died though (edit: Ukraine claims 180k but their casualty estimates are reportedly high, so probably less than 180k dead)
By contrast, the United States lost fewer than 2,500 service members in the entire 20 years we were in Afghanistan.