Russia has lost over 900,000 soldiers since February 2022
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Anyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up?
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~58,000
:::Plus about 300k "casualties", which is more apples to apples with the 900k Russians.
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So... You have a lot of common with people who are ready to go kill in exchange for money?
Oh wowzies.
For a lot of people, yeah actually. It’s all relative to each country’s general economy and propaganda, but there are a lot of people around the world either already in the military willing to die or kill for their country because of patriotism or feeling like there’s no other career paths for them, or that would take up the call if conscripted by their country.
Then think about how hitmen, assassins, sicarios and those type of criminals are usually from poverty or lower class and just regular people that descended into a life of crime and kill for money. Yeah, I think it’s actually quite common for regular folk to be killing others for money unfortunately.
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You mean the 18-30 y/o men who are conscripted into compulsory military service for a year? Kinda sounds like a lot of them might not have much choice, barring gulag or suicide, in the matter.
Ah welcome to your private fantasy land. Enjoy it.
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You mean the 18-30 y/o men who are conscripted into compulsory military service for a year? Kinda sounds like a lot of them might not have much choice, barring gulag or suicide, in the matter.
tbf, most Russian conscripts are not involved in the war - men sign theoretically voluntary contracts in exchange for extra pay or reduced service time to be deployed outside of Russia.
That being said, there's a great deal of coercion that's involved, so while you can resist pressure to sign a contract, it's not unreasonable to think that a significant minority felt they really didn't have a choice.
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So... You have a lot of common with people who are ready to go kill in exchange for money?
Oh wowzies.
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Plus about 300k "casualties", which is more apples to apples with the 900k Russians.
Only about 150k Americans seriously wounded in Vietnam.
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Only about 150k Americans seriously wounded in Vietnam.
That's a fact. Though it's hard to know what kind of statistic we're seeing in Russia's numbers here, by comparison
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Ah welcome to your private fantasy land. Enjoy it.
I just believe the righteous antipathy is better leveled at the Russian government, specifically Putin, than the anonymous cannon fodder.
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Anyone know the number of Americans killed in Vietnam without looking it up?
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
~58,000
:::This is in no way true is it? Holy shit
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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.
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This is in no way true is it? Holy shit
Did you miss the article where local officials were giving out meat grinders to the parents of the KIA?
It's . . . not . . . I don't . . i mean. Yeah. Putin's an absolute monster.
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Seeing as they are still on their murderous war of conquest, obviously not enough yet.
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Good for Ukraine.
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You have more in common with those soldiers than you do with the warpigs pulling the strings that led them to their deaths.
I'm pretty sure everybody on these websites knows they're more similar to enlisted soldiers than to Vladimir Putin.
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So... You have a lot of common with people who are ready to go kill in exchange for money?
Oh wowzies.
I don’t think killing for money is ok. I think you’re a teenager with simplistic view of a complex topic. I think you live under some liberal government that does not practice conscription, and have no idea what it means to live under a more repressive regime that does. And I think you enjoy believing you’re right more than you enjoy learning things, which might be how you became so fucking stupid to begin with.
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I'm pretty sure everybody on these websites knows they're more similar to enlisted soldiers than to Vladimir Putin.
Not everybody, according to some of the comments in this very post.
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Hey, that's not fair! Most of them were not killed, but only mutilated too much to be ableish-bodied enough for the russian army!
(Serious note: this is the casuality number, that includes deaths, but also soldiers with wounds that put them out of service, like lost legs)
And then they send the mutilated back out into the trenches literally.
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Did you miss the article where local officials were giving out meat grinders to the parents of the KIA?
It's . . . not . . . I don't . . i mean. Yeah. Putin's an absolute monster.
I'll be honest: I know next to nothing about the Vietnam War, living in Germany. We just read Slaughterhouse 5 in our English class and that's it. Given its omnipresence in culture in general, I never would have thought that so "few" people died. Don't get me wrong - it's still a lot of people. But compared to the 900000 it's just a drop in the bucket.
Fuck Putin and what he's doing to my fellow countrymen/women/people
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I don’t think killing for money is ok. I think you’re a teenager with simplistic view of a complex topic. I think you live under some liberal government that does not practice conscription, and have no idea what it means to live under a more repressive regime that does. And I think you enjoy believing you’re right more than you enjoy learning things, which might be how you became so fucking stupid to begin with.
The war is about 20 km away from my home town. You are wrong in almost every point.
But please, don't let me stop you from living in your little Narnia, you stupid potato.
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The war is about 20 km away from my home town. You are wrong in almost every point.
But please, don't let me stop you from living in your little Narnia, you stupid potato.
"as a black man" vibes
